{"id":2593,"date":"2016-09-02T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2016-09-02T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:07:00","slug":"do-you-do-internet-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2016\/09\/02\/do-you-do-internet-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you do internet shopping? Online banking? Have a fitness tracker? How secure are they? You need our Cyber Security free online course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use devices connected to the internet every day. Smart watches, mobile phones, fitness trackers, tablets, bookreaders and more. And they all contain a wealth of personal information: our browsing histories, banking details, passwords etc.<\/p>\n<p>But how secure are they?<\/p>\n<p>In Newcastle University&#8217;s newest free online course: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/cyber-security\/\">Cyber Security: Safety at Home, Online, in Life<\/a> we explore the security usability tradeoff that we negotiate every time we use an online service.<\/p>\n<p>This enjoyable and engaging three week course will take you about 3 hours a week to complete. By the end of the course we hope you will more informed and understand the risks of fraud and cyber crime better, to help you make more enlightened decisions about how to protect your personal information.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2595\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2016\/09\/meet_the_team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2595\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2016\/09\/meet_the_team-300x101.jpg\" alt=\"A composite of mugshots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2016\/09\/meet_the_team-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2016\/09\/meet_the_team-768x259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2016\/09\/meet_the_team.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meet the Cyber Security Educator and Mentor team. L-R: (Top row) Steve, Dylan, Phyllis, David, Peter (Bottom row) Martin, Charles, Sia, Aad, Kovila, Maryam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The course is led by Dr Steve Riddle with an Educator and Mentor team drawn from researchers and practitioners from Newcastle University\u2019s <a title=\"Newcastle University School of Computing Science\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/computing\/\">School of Computing Science<\/a>, an acknowledged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epsrc.ac.uk\/research\/centres\/acecybersecurity\/\">Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We invited some cyber security experts to preview the content. The North East Regional Cyber Crime Unit (UK) said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was impressed. The content is really relevant and dynamic and not just your basic security tips &#8211; there\u2019s a bit more to it than that. It\u2019s very user interactive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can join over 9000 people and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/cyber-security\/\">sign up now<\/a>. The course starts on Monday 5 September 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use devices connected to the internet every day. Smart watches, mobile phones, fitness trackers, tablets, bookreaders and more. And they all contain a wealth of personal information: our browsing histories, banking details, passwords etc. But how secure are they? In Newcastle University&#8217;s newest free online course: Cyber Security: Safety at Home, Online, in Life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2016\/09\/02\/do-you-do-internet-shopping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you do internet shopping? Online banking? Have a fitness tracker? How secure are they? You need our Cyber Security free online course!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4635,"featured_media":2594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[405,117,145],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moocs","tag-cyber-security","tag-futurelearn","tag-mooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}