Cory’s graphic was intentionally everything wrong with the current imagery. The majority of the stock imagery you can find for cyber crime is designed to inspire fear, not inform viewers. It’s based on misconceptions from the 80s carried forward to today.
Cyber crime is mostly not being caused by lone white guys in hoodies. This notion has never fit reality very well. A large portion of what falls into cyber crime is caused by people sitting in cubicals that look like any other call center.
While 1’s and 0’s may be telling for computer professionals it does noting to convey any meaning to a lay person, the group that most needs help understand a field that was once obscure and unimportant but is now a daily threat to them.
The details of how cyber crime is done does change a bit, but less than most people think, social engineering is still a far larger portion than technical attacks, and that is still the opposite of what most people think is the case. The things that have changed are what people are attacking. They might have once social engineered a user into giving up their own password, now they social engineer the phone company to take over a phone number so they can intercept SMS MFA codes. The attack hasn’t changed, just who should be concerned and educated.
