Category ELI5

Meaning “Explain like I’m 5”, an idea borrowed from Reddit which takes seemingly hard to understand topics and explains them like you’re a kid.

Phishing

a person wearing a mask using a laptop

Phishing is like someone pretending to be your friend, but they’re actually a bad person who wants to trick you. They might send you a message, like an email or a text, that looks like it’s from someone you know…

Malware

Okay, let’s think of malware as a bad toy. Just like you would never play with a toy that hurts you, you don’t want your computer/server to play with malware either! Malware is like a sneaky bad toy that can…

DDoS

boy touching page of book

Okay! So imagine you’re playing with your toys and suddenly, all your friends show up with their toys and want to play with you at the same time. It’s so many toys that they block you from being able to…