Most people do, of course, and the best cartoons are the ones that make learning  tough lessons a little easier. PC security lessons are hard for the non-geek user to learn and most people learn them only after getting burned by malware, becoming a victim of identity theft, or suffering financial loss from online fraud. We IT security geeks have to deal with unenlightened users–and the fallout from malware infections–all the time. But thanks to Sukamol Srikwan & Markus Jakobsson, our job of enlightening users just got easier.

Head over to SecurityCartoon.com and check it out. They have all kinds of different educational cartoon sequences with such titles as, “How to Stay Secure,” “Tricks, Tricks, Tricks” (how to trick them, and how they try to trick you), and ”Think Your Mother’s Maiden Name is Secret?” You can select cartoons from several categories: spoofing, malware, phishing, pharming, passwords, and fightback. There’s even a Geek Dictionary to help explain things.

My favorite cartoon is “…Another Day at the Support Group for Computers with Malware.”

Good stuff.

Cheers!
The Geek

Have a question? It can be about anything from cooking to science, whatever you’re interested in: Click here to Ask the Geek! Kenny “The Geek” Harthun has been playing with geeky stuff since 1965. He’s a former research scientist and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer at Connective Computing, Inc. and loves to learn about anything and everything.