Hi and welcome to Cyber reasons malicious life B-side. A few months ago my youngest kid, Mahom, who is nine years old, asked me if I can help

me create a new Fortnacht account. It's really an epic account, but anyway, that caught me by surprise because I knew he spent almost all the money he gets from us and his grandparents on skins and

fancy weapons plus the literally hundreds of hours he spent on leveling up his

character so I create a new account? Well, Marom was reluctant to explain initially, but after some prodding I got him to fess up. It turns out he fell for a scammer who promised him an even better character

with even better guns and axes and silly lamas or whatever else they have there. Don't ask me. I tried playing Fortnite a few times, but gave up after I got my ass kicked by one six-year-old kid too many.

Damn brats, I was kicking asses on doom and quake when your dads weren't born yet.

Anyway, Maron knew that he wasn't supposed to talk to strangers on the internet and

certainly never give anyone his password, but he couldn't resist the temptation.

After he told me, we tried to get his account back, but it was already too late.

The miserable look on Marom's face when he realized the characters he spent so much time and

money on are gone for good?

I knew he learned a painful life lesson and that he'll probably be much more careful

in the future, but I sure wish he didn't have to learn it the hard way.

Education is something that I feel we haven't discussed enough of here in malicious life,

even though I think this is an extremely important topic, one that probably deserves its own podcast.

Kids today are growing up in a very digital environment and are exposed to many of the dangers that us grown-ups are exposed to.

If we were a caveman and this was a jungle, we would probably spend a lot of time teaching our kids about poisonous mushrooms and dangerous animals.

Well, the internet is our jungle and our kids need to learn about poisonous malware and

dangerous scammers the earlier the better.

Our guest today is Pete Herzog, a security expert and an educator with a vision.

He wants our kids to learn about cyber security and not just about not talking to strangers online.

He wants them to learn even more advanced stuff such as security analysis and hacking.

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