Locks are worth having. But nearly every successful attack on an ordinary person doesn't pick the lock. It gets you to open the door.
A message that looks like your bank. A voice on the phone that sounds official and impatient. A login page indistinguishable from the real one. None of that is defeated by a stronger password, because none of it is attacking your password. It's attacking your judgement in the eight seconds before you act.
That judgement is trainable, and this is the set that trains it.
What's in it
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Course 06, Phishing and Scam Recognition 101. The five tells in almost every scam message, and how to see where a link truly leads.
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Course 07, Malware, Viruses and Ransomware Explained. What each type actually does, the four routes in, and the tested backup that makes ransomware survivable.
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Course 08, Social Engineering. The six psychological levers behind nearly every con, and rehearsed words for refusing a convincing impersonator.
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Course 09, Spotting Fake Sites, Apps and Messages. Read an address like a forger, plus the current tells in cloned voices and deepfake video.
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Course 10, What to Do If You've Been Hacked. The recovery playbook. What to do first, in what order, when your judgement is the thing least available.
Why take the set rather than one
These five map onto a single attack, in sequence. Course 08 is the persuasion, Course 06 is the message it arrives in, Course 09 is the fake page it sends you to, Course 07 is what gets installed if you go through with it, and Course 10 is what you do afterwards. Learning one part in isolation leaves you sharp at one stage of something that has five.
Course 10 in particular is worth having before you need it. Nobody reads a recovery guide calmly on the day.
Where you'll be at the end
A working radar for scams across email, text, phone and social. The habit of checking a link before clicking rather than after. The ability to name a manipulation while it's being used on you. A tested backup. And a written plan for the bad day, so the panic has something to follow.
The maths
Five courses at £30 each would be £150. The bundle is £100.
Details
- Format: five downloadable PDFs, delivered by email immediately after checkout
- Total time: about five hours, or one course per evening
- Series: Courses 06 to 10 of 20, GhostNet Cyber Fundamentals, Track B
- Prerequisites: none, though Track A makes you a harder target to begin with
- Works on: any device, any operating system
- Level: complete beginner, no technical background needed
Buy with confidence
30-day money-back guarantee on the whole bundle. If it isn't useful, email us within 30 days and we'll refund you in full. You don't need to give a reason.
Where to go next
Pair it with Privacy Foundations as the 10-course Privacy and Threats bundle for £120, or take the complete 20-course programme for £250 instead of £600.
