Protect your online and social media accounts

Picture this. You receive an email threatening to expose sensitive information if you don't pay a ransom within 48 hours. In the email, you recognize what is one of your passwords. Does this mean your account has been hacked? How does that make you feel? How would you react?

Imagine this. You want to log in to your Gmail account, but your password isn't accepted - it has been changed by someone else. You always thought you had a good system for your passwords, a system that no one would ever crack. Unfortunately, someone guessed your password, logged in and changed it. How do you feel, and what would you do next?

If you consider the scenarios above as pretty bad, you're spot on. Nobody wants to lose access to their online accounts, and rightly so. But it could be worse. Think what might happen if your online banking is hacked. Losing access to your emails is one, losing money is something else entirely!

We really, really need to start taking our online privacy and security seriously. Criminals are continuously trying to get our credentials for financial gain. It's time we put a stop to that and start protecting our online accounts better.

This course will help you do that, by showing how can you create secure passwords, prevent password reuse, and add additional tools to effectively "lock the front door of your online dwelling."

In easy to follow video tutorials, I will show you how to install a good password manager for all popular browsers, so you can make sure you'll never reuse passwords, which is a big no-no! Other modules focus on two-factor, or multi-factor, authentication, which will add an additional layer of security. While two-factor authentication was the exception not more than two years ago, it is starting to become the norm. Most popular websites support some form of two-factor authentication, and some even mandate it.

In the course, I will show you how to improve your online safety. Not only will I explain why it is important to have unique and difficult-to-guess passwords, I will show you how you can achieve this easily. If you take your online security seriously, then this is the course for you!

The field of online and social media security is one that is constantly changing and growing, but since you will have life time access to this course, you'll benefit as I keep adding content.

So, register now and stay ahead!

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