Home Alone
During this holiday season, "I'm dreaming of" being an ethical security professional who uses hacking skills to find and fix vulnerabilities in systems with permission.
"White Hat Christmas"
It's 2007, you're gonna have to speak louder, i just got one of these for Christmas and I'm listening to Soulja Boy's "Crank That"!
iPod Touch
Horror: "Walter's attempts to dismiss the entity are futile. It cannot be reasoned with. It cannot be deterred. It appears at his home, infiltrating his family. It does not seem to sleep. Late at night, the family hears it, hammering and giggling in the dark, building strange, misshapen totems from household objects."
Elf
This rhyming confection is a holiday staple, often decorated with icing and candies.
Gingerbread Man
I won't be getting any French Hens or Turtle Doves this time, I've just discovered this type of vulnerability, even the vendor doesn't know about it yet!
The "Zero-Days" of Christmas
The jury is still out on what will be the hottest Toy of 2025. But my money is on these Big Eyed collectible plush toys.
Lababu's
SciFi: A transport unit delivers a "Major Award" to the domicile. The object is a bio-luminescent prosthetic limb, humanoid in shape, intended for illumination. Its function is illogical, but the Lead Engineer integrates it into the habitat's central chamber, causing a severe morale drop in the Maternal Unit, who eventually neutralizes the artifact.
A Christmas Story
You might leave this out for Santa, a creamy beverage that can be served with or without a little extra "spirit."
Eggnog
In the movie, Kevin establishes traps and protections at every entrance, exit, stairwell, etc., ensuring protection at every layer. In Cyber, we refer to this as
Defense in Depth
In the SCIF, the lights are turned way down low, so our NSA Folks can work in their new cloud environment
Let it SNOW!
2006: Make sure you have your wrist strap on when you throw a strike, you don't want to smash your TV.
Nintendo Wii
Romance: A group of dashing, albeit misguided, European gentlemen crash the party. Their leader is a man of sophisticated taste and icy resolve, but he misunderstands the power of the love in the room. He sees only a corporate fortress, not the battleground for a man's heart.
Die Hard
A traditional English Christmas pudding that carolers in "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" demand.
Figgy Pudding
He's stepping up the reindeer games this year with some Cyber Simulations against organizations to test for vulnerbilities, defenses, and overall security.
Rudolph the Red Team Reindeer
In 2000 you probably wouldve caught me on one of these. Careful not to let it hit you in the shin!
Razor Scooter
Western: Our story's about a young homesteader, a boy whose grit was starting to wear thin. He was losing his belief in the old legends, the ones about the white-bearded prospector up at the North Pole who runs the whole territory. He figured it was just a tall tale for greenhorns.
Then, late one night, a ghost of an iron horse comes thunderin' into his quiet homestead, all black steel and hissing steam, on a track that ain't there.
The Polar Express
A sweet bread loaf, originally from Milan, Italy, that has become a Christmas classic.
Panettonee
By the time the Wet Bandits are coming to his house, Kevin has fully prepared it for them, in some ways, he wants them to enter that house. In Cyber, we refer to these as
Honeypots
When Brenda Lee sang this song, I doubt she was thinking about a type of network probe where attackers send malformed TCP packets with many flags set, that wouldn't be jolly at all.
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Attack
1998: The more you play with me, the more I do! I will keep Amazing you!
Furby
Mystery: One night, after another perfectly executed but soul-crushingly familiar "job," the man wanders into the woods and stumbles upon a scene that doesn't fit. A circle of strange doors. One, in the shape of a brightly lit tree, draws him in. It's a clue that leads nowhere he's ever known. He opens it and is pulled into a new jurisdiction entirely.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
In Japan, a popular Christmas meal is some of this fast food.
KFC