Module 10: Personal Finance Security
Fraud and financial profiling are separate problems. This module covers credit freezes, virtual cards and payment isolation, alias details in commerce, and an honest look at cryptocurrency privacy.
Privacy
Module 11: The Human Aspect
Social engineering targets decisions rather than systems. This module covers why pretexts work, verification patterns which survive pressure, phishing recognition, and reducing what public records reveal.
Module 12: Physical Security
Every digital control assumes the device stays in your hands. This module covers device seizure and theft, document disposal, observation and skimming, and why a PIN sometimes beats biometrics.
Module 2: Web Browsing and Tracking
How stateful and stateless tracking differ, which browser changes reduce collection, why fingerprint tweaks are lower yield than they appear, and what incognito does not protect against.
Module 3: Email Security
Email is the recovery path for every other account. This module covers address strategy, remote content and tracking pixels, provider selection, third-party access, and what self-hosting genuinely requires.
Module 4: Secure Messaging
End-to-end encryption protects content, not metadata. This module covers how to evaluate a messenger, why group chats multiply risk, and what your provider still learns about you.
Module 5: Social Media Privacy
Social profiles aggregate into a detailed dossier. This module covers the two assumptions behind every post, upload discipline, permission and integration review, and when leaving is the honest answer.
Module 6: Home Network Security
Your router is the boundary between your devices and the internet. This module covers a hardening sequence, what a VPN does and does not change, DNS privacy versus integrity, and how WiFi networks get catalogued.
Module 7: Mobile Device Security
A phone is a sensor platform which travels with you. This module covers carrier-level protections including SIM swap defense, permission and app inventory, stalkerware detection, and why the keyboard matters.
Module 8: Personal Computer Security
Updates, encryption, and backups matter more than anything else on a desktop. This module covers those three, then least privilege, endpoint integrity, attack surface reduction, and isolation techniques.
