Course Overview

In today's digital landscape, online threats are more sophisticated than ever, making it essential to understand how hackers exploit vulnerabilities and how to protect yourself. This course, guided by expert insights from a professional hacker, explores the real dangers of the internet, revealing how cybercriminals target individuals and businesses. By learning their tactics, you can proactively safeguard your personal data, online accounts, and digital privacy.

This course begins with an overview of internet security, highlighting common hacking techniques and warning signs that indicate a potential breach. It covers essential topics such as securing social media accounts, identifying targeted scams, and understanding how hackers operate. Expert discussions, including insights from Terry Cutler on LogikTV and PBS, provide real-world examples of cyber threats and how to mitigate them. The course also explains why people become hacking targets and what steps they can take to prevent falling victim to cybercrime.

By the end of this course, you will gain valuable knowledge on securing your online presence, recognizing potential threats, and implementing practical cybersecurity measures to protect yourself from hackers and online scams.

What You Will Learn

  • Take a tour of the biggest online threats and find information on yourself that you didn't know existed
  • Learn to spot fake profiles
  • Learn to perform an advanced Google Search on yourself
  • Learn to check if your PC has already been hacked in 4 minutes
  • Learn how viruses and malware can turn your life upside down
  • Learn how to perform a proper in-depth Facebook privacy checkup

Program Curriculum

  • Dangers of the Internet
  • How to Know You’ve Been Hacked
  • Lockdown Your Facebook Privacy
  • Preview
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • How to Protect Your Data
  • Targeted Scams
  • Terry Cutler returns to PBS as a guest on Robert Scully's
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • How and Why You’re Getting Hacked
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

Instructor

Terry Cutler

Terry Cutler is a government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a certified ethical hacker), and the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the IT security and data defense firm Cyology Labs™ in Montréal, Canada. He specializes in the anticipation, assessment, and prevention of security breaches for governments, corporations, businesses, and consumers, as well as Internet Safety for Children. Mr. Cutler has been named as IFSEC Global’s Top 20 Most Influential People in Cybersecurity in 2018 and again in 2019. As an award-winning information security strategist for almost 20 years, Mr. Cutler has advised some of Canada’s largest companies on how to prevent and remedy internal and external security penetration. For the general public, he developed an effective online learning program arranged in modules and updated regularly to keep up with the rapidly changing digital landscape in which “wild-west” internet bandits constantly seek and find ways to break into our lives. Terry Cutler is a frequent contributor to national media reportage about cybercrime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and the real social network dangers that families and individuals face every day. Terry Cutler has coined the term Cyologist™ to describe what he does. His mission is to “help individuals and corporations protect themselves from data breaches and other online cyber threats through his videos, media appearances, coaching products and consulting services.”

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