Goodbye, Jeff and Tina: Cyber Awareness Challenge ditches beloved-but-corny characters

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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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