Passing the buck with 'hacklore'
CISA’s Bob Lord coined the term ‘hacklore’ for ‘cybersecurity folklore’, the stories we tell ourselves and others about the nature of technological risks and ways to avoid them that are grounded in fear rather than fact, rumour rather than evidence, antiquity rather than the present day. I see this everywhere, even in high-end corporate ‘cyber awareness’ programmes. Beware of charging your phone from a public USB socket, beware of accepting browser cookies, beware of updating devices on untrusted networks and so on....