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Everyday Cybersecurity, a free technology course on Tomo

Everyday Cybersecurity

Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Cybersecurity. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

18 levels across 3 sections, about 36 minutes end to end, roughly 7 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Securing Your Digital Front Door, Hardening Devices and Networks, and Understanding Threats and Breach Response. It starts from scratch.

18 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Everyday Cybersecurity
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18
Levels
3
Sections
5
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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Everyday Cybersecurity

  • Treating any account as 'unimportant' fails if its password matches your important accounts
  • Attackers use automated tools to try breached email-and-password pairs across hundreds of popular services
  • A breach on an obscure, insecure website directly compromises every other account sharing that exact credential
  • A password manager creates and autofills long, randomized credentials for every account
  • The user only ever needs to remember a single, strong master passphrase to unlock their vault
  • Unique credentials prevent a compromise on one site from spreading to any other account
  • MFA requires a second proof of identity that the attacker does not have, such as a physical device or biometrics
  • A stolen password alone is insufficient to complete the sign-in process when MFA is enforced
  • The second factor operates independently from the password factor
  • SMS verification relies on cellular networks where attackers can redirect numbers via SIM swapping
  • Authenticator apps run locally on your phone without relying on text messages
  • Physical keys require actual hands-on contact with a physical token to approve a sign-in
  • Passkeys use cryptographic keys tied directly to the genuine web address, refusing to authenticate on a fake domain
  • There is no shared secret or typed password for the fake site to capture or record
  • Your private authentication key stays locked inside your device's secure hardware
  • Phishing attacks manufacture tight deadlines so fear rushes you into clicking before you check if the message is real
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Everyday Cybersecurity the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Keeping Passwords Safe and Simple

When hackers steal a list of logins, what do they usually do with them?

Get it right to open this lesson and 17 more in the app.

Course map

Where Everyday Cybersecurity takes you

Learn how modern digital attacks work and how to defend your personal data with minimal friction. Build practical habits that secure your accounts, devices, and home networks against real-world threats.

  1. 1

    Securing Your Digital Front Door

    • Locking Down Accounts Without the Headache
    • Spotting Social Engineering and Deception
  2. 2

    Hardening Devices and Networks

    • Fortifying Personal Devices and Software
    • Navigating Public Wi-Fi and Home Networks
  3. 3

    Understanding Threats and Breach Response

    • How Malware Infiltrates and Operates
    • Thinking Like a Defender

3 sections · 6 units · 18 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Everyday Cybersecurity is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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