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NordVPN just published an interview about online threats which is really good! Below is a short clip of the larger article! you can read the entire article here Justina: Phishing is easily one of the most common scams and seems to never go away, probably because it works so well for scammers. Phishing happens when you get an email, a text, or even a direct message that looks legit. It might say it’s from your bank or a delivery service. But someone’s actually trying to steal your personal information, logins, or financial details. According to our research on scam experiences, receiving phishing calls and messages ranks as the second most common scam tactic — our February 2025 survey found that 39% of NordVPN users have encountered this type of attack, which is why they’re turning to various cybersecurity tools for help. How do you spot a phishing email or text message if you have no cybersecurity tools available at the moment? While bad grammar used to be a telltale sign, AI has made phishing messages much more sophisticated and convincing. Instead, ask yourself — did I expect this message? If you get a delivery notification but haven’t ordered anything, or congratulations for winning a lottery you never entered, that’s your red flag right there. Especially if the unexpected message delivers an urgent request. If there’s also a link, hover over it before clicking and see if the address matches the legitimate service that’s supposedly contacting you.

Hey All, A new course is available!!🙌🥳 Dive into Myths v. Reality and learn about common misconceptions about digital life, how we interact with our digital lives, and some tools to help you overcome. My goal is to produce at least one course per week on average. I went a couple days over my goal this week, but that's okay :) Lot's of learning and improvements on my process as I get into a rhythm and standardize my approach. That said, this is the first course of the true curriculum catalog so I'm excited to start chipping away at the introductory courses and I look forward to any feedback you all have about the course. I'm almost past the 30 day restriction on Youtube so I'll start using that platform more instead of typing everything out :P. Hope all is well and safe!

Thank you all for your patience as we get the ball rolling with actual course development! After putting together the initial course there was a lot of excitement around moving forward with content generation; however, we wanted to make sure there was a system in place to grow courses coherently and not just have a bunch of one-off topics. So, we took the last week or so to build out a course catalog that we feel is fairly mature in that it: - Allows users to build off knowledge as they study. - Is flexible to not require users to read every course. - Is tiered based on depth of knowledge so you can go as far as you desire. - Has trees and branches so you can navigate topics as they relate to you and supports learning at different points in life within the family. - And a few other nice to haves that we hope help us develop and you ingest content easily. Over time we'll build out a more mature way to visualize learning paths, relationships, and provide a better centralized tracker. For now though we hope this provides a good representation of what we our intent is with this community and how we plan to achieve it. Our next step is to formalize course structure so every course/module feels familiar and then start knocking out content!!! February is fast upon us and we hope to have the Basic tier courses published by the end of that month so then we can start to publish materials in our Beginner + tiers going forward from there. Thanks for being along for the journey, for your support, and for your patience as we continue to gain momentum in our mission :)

Please take a moment to introduce yourself! I'll go first :) My name is Thaddeus Bender, I'm a cybersecurity expert by day and single father by night. I've been in the field of physical/systems/software security for around 15 years from the military to private sector. As a parent, and friend to many other parents, I have learned to translate my cybersecurity knowledge into the family environment. I learn more every day, and that's why this Skool now exists! I hope to share and help family's from all over stay safer and be more prepared in this ever growing digital era!