Lesson 5: Staying safe and legal online

Introduction

Welcome to Lesson 5 of Everyday computer skills: a beginner’s guide to computers, tablets, mobile phones and accessibility. In this lesson we will be looking at cyber security – how to stay safe and legal online. We have already looked at staying safe in Lessons 3 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]   and 4, so this lesson will build on what you have already learned.

Key words and concepts are in bold. There is a course glossary you can refer to if any of these are unfamiliar to you.

This lesson is in four sections:

• Protecting your computer from viruses.

• Cyber security and recognising scams.

• Fake websites and identity theft.

• Data protection.