Kaspersky Education

Personal data protection (Kaspersky Education)

Offered by Kaspersky,
Personal data protection (Kaspersky Education)

ou would hardly give your passport to a stranger or leave it for a few days on a café table. Your personal data online should be treated with no less respect. In this course, you will learn how outsiders — from large corporations to small scammers — try to find out your secrets, what they hunt for, and how it threatens you. You will also learn how to create strong passwords, correctly configure accounts on social networks and other online services, protect data from being intercepted when using public Wi-Fi, and guard against snooping by advertisers.

Course content:

  1. The threat of personal data leaks
  2. How your personal data gets online
  3. How to protect your accounts
  4. Why you should know about leaks and when to change your password
  5. How to configure privacy in Facebook
  6. How to configure privacy in VKontakte
  7. How to configure privacy in Instagram
  8. How to configure privacy in Twitter
  9. How to configure privacy in Odnoklassniki
  10. Configuring privacy on Google and Yandex
  11. Configuring an Apple account
  12. Configuring a Mail.ru account
  13. Safety procedure in public networks
  14. How Google, Facebook, and many others spy on you
  15. How to tackle online surveillance

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Recommended Background:
Finishing the “Internet Security: the nitty-gritty” course would be helpful.

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