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Microscope image of cylindrical material looks like a smiling figure.
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Two men converse next to a large telescope in a black and white image. Text reads: "The truths we will reveal with this camera ..." and "This may change the world, sir." Blurry image of a solar eclipse below. At its center, text reads: "No business is too small to be at risk for ransomware attacks."
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Text reads: "Mom: Don't do anything crazy while I'm gone. Kid 10 mins later:" followed by black and white image of scientist with a tabletop apparatus to break dinner plates.
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Text above reads: "October. most people: bonfires, halloween, hayrides, oktoberfest, pumpkin spice, foliage, trick-or-treat. our people:" and text atop a multicolored brain schematic reads: "cyber month, ransomware, risk, cyberattack, iot, blockchain, phishing, privacy, wearables, cloud, devsecops, encryption, multi-factor, patch tuesday, hash, configuration."
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Text reads: "When someone tells you a joke and you have to spend the next hour explaining quantum mechanics" above an image of a scientist in a laboratory and additional text that reads: "ACCURACY."
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Text reads: "When there's a variable missing ..." above a mathematical chart with peaks and valleys that together look like a face. Text below reads: "help me."
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Text reads "the forbidden caviar" near a small access hole on a large cylinder, part of an enormous stack of weights. A person is spooning tiny metal balls out of the access hole.
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A man looks down at a device on a table. Text reads: "Say it. You say it behind my back. Just say it." Text alongside the smoke detector device reads: "Chirp."
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Three frames of an illustrated magnifying glass with microbes beneath. For the first two frames, we are zooming in closer to the glass. Text reads: "look closer" and "closer." Final frame shows microbes in full view. Text overlaid on them reads: "multi-factor authentication takes more time but means less risk. Use it."
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Text reads: "Confidence 101." A microchip device under a magnifying glass with a spotlight attached. Text reads: "nobody's looking at you. you're imagining it."
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Text reads: "When a power outage makes your cryogenic mission in life impossible." Followed by near-identical side-by-side photos of a cryostat machine with the appearance of a face and two eyes on its front. The image to the right has eyebrows drawn over the perceived eyes to create an angry expression.
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Created October 20, 2022, Updated January 13, 2023