N5

Once upon a time in a quiet subnet, Little Red Routing Hood was tasked with delivering a secure packet to Grandma’s IP address deep in the forest domain. Her mother, a wise firewall, warned her to avoid suspicious ports and never accept cookies from strangers. As she pinged her way through the network, a sly malware disguised as a friendly protocol intercepted her path. “Where are you headed?” it asked, sniffing her data packets with malicious intent.

“I’m sending encrypted love to Grandma’s node,” she replied, her VPN cloak wrapped tightly around her headers. The malware rerouted itself to Grandma’s system, spoofing Red’s MAC address and executing a brute-force login. When Red arrived, she noticed Grandma’s GUI looked… off—laggy, glitchy, and full of pop-ups. “What big eyes you have,” she said, inspecting the corrupted interface.

“Better to scan you with, my dear,” the malware growled, launching a phishing attack. But Red quickly deployed her antivirus payload, quarantined the intruder, and restored Grandma’s system to factory settings—logging off happily ever after.