https://www.stripes.com/news/us/goodbye-jeff-and-tina-cyber-awareness-challenge-ditches-beloved-but-corny-characters-1.577101
By CAITLIN DOORNBOS
STARS AND STRIPES
April 16, 2019
There's something -- or a few someones — missing from the 2019 Cyber
Awareness Challenge, the Department of Defense’s annual computer security
training.
Loveable sweater-vested narrator Jeff, misguided co-worker Tina and other
characters are absent from the new challenge, which casts its user in the
role of virtual superhero in a race to prevent a future cyberattack.
The characters became the subject of many tweets, gifs, memes and
Halloween costumes over the years. But in the updated program, the
cartoons are all but gone, traded for live actors.
Launched late last year, the new Cyber Awareness Challenge "offers a
completely new look and feel," the Defense Information Systems Agency
wrote in the product description of the program. While the challenge
retains its game-like quality, its concept is turned on its head.
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