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Online Safety made simple
for everyone

Layered protection for everyday digital life: practical, free guidance for parents, seniors, students, schools, and small businesses navigating the internet with confidence.

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Safety built layer by layer,
like a cabbage.

Just as a cabbage is protected by multiple overlapping leaves, digital safety is built one habit at a time: awareness, good habits, community support, and ongoing education stacked together.

We don't ask anyone to become
a technical expert.

Instead, we translate real online risks like scam calls, phishing links, and fake job offers into simple, practical steps that fit everyday life in Nigeria and across Africa.

Every guide, workshop, and article we publish adds one more protective layer around the people who need it most.

Who we help

Safety for every stage
of digital life

From a first smartphone to a first small business, we meet people where they already are online.

  • Children Safe habits from the very first login
  • Parents A roadmap for guiding kids online
  • Seniors Protection from targeted scams
  • Schools Practical frameworks for staff & students
  • SMEs Threat awareness for small teams
  • Everyday users Confidence for daily digital life

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What is Online Safety,
really?

It isn't about being a tech expert. It's about simple, everyday habits that protect your money, your information, and the people you care about.

  • Plain-language answers to real questions
  • Alerts on the scams spreading right now
  • Guidance for families, seniors, schools, and small businesses
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Example conversation: a visitor asks what Online Safety is. CabbageNode explains it is how you protect yourself, your money, and your information online, that it only takes simple habits, that banks never ask for your OTP or PIN, and points to free guides, sessions, and the community.

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Ways to learn with CabbageNode

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Workshops

Hands-on community sessions for seniors, parents, and local groups, taught in plain language with no jargon.

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Learning tracks

Self-paced guidance organised by audience, from a first-time smartphone user to a small business owner.

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Free resources

Downloadable checklists and toolkits you can keep, print, and share. No account required.

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Community

A growing network of schools, NGOs, and everyday users helping each other stay safe online.

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Free resources

Guides you can download today

No payment, no account. Just practical safety guidance you can keep and share.

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  • CabbageNode AI security assistant
    Everyday Users

    The Everyday Internet Safety Checklist

    The core habits every internet user should have in place, in one printable page.

  • CabbageNode email threat dashboard
    Seniors

    Protect Your Parents Online Guide

    A plain-language guide for helping older relatives recognise and avoid scams.

  • Cybersecurity email triage dashboard
    Family

    Family Online Safety Starter Kit

    A starting toolkit for setting household rules around devices and screen time.

Learning together

Built for students, families, and classrooms navigating the internet together

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Current threat landscape

Active threats to watch this month

A live briefing on the scams and risks our team is currently tracking across Nigeria and Africa.

Last updated 10 October 2026
  • High alert
    Banking Fraud

    OTP scam calls targeting pension accounts

    Callers posing as pension officers are asking retirees to read out SMS codes. Banks never ask for your OTP over the phone. Hang up and call the number on your card instead.

    Read the full alert
  • Rising
    Job Scams

    Fake job offers requesting a “registration fee”

    Messages on WhatsApp and social media promise remote jobs but ask for payment upfront to “secure” the role. Legitimate employers never charge candidates to apply.

    Read the full alert
  • High alert
    AI-Generated Threats

    AI voice-cloned calls impersonating a relative

    Scammers use short audio clips to clone a family member's voice and stage a fake emergency. Always hang up and call that person back directly to confirm.

    Read the full alert
High alert: active and causing losses now Rising: spreading quickly Watch: emerging, stay alert

Happening now worldwide

Live global threat pulse

Real-time signals from public security and news sources, refreshed automatically while you're on this page.

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Software flaws published worldwide, via the US National Vulnerability Database.
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Scam and fraud headlines

Live data is pulled directly from third-party public sources (NVD and the GDELT Project news index) and is not reviewed by CabbageNode. Headlines link to the original publishers.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about CabbageNode. Can't find your answer? Our team is happy to help.

  • Yes. Our guides, checklists, and learning tracks are free to use, and you don't need to create an account to read or download them.

  • Anyone who uses the internet. We create guidance for children, parents, seniors, schools, small businesses, and everyday users across Nigeria and the rest of Africa.

  • Not at all. Everything we publish is written in plain language, with simple steps you can follow on your own phone or computer.

  • Visit our Book a Session page and tell us a little about your group. We run hands-on sessions for seniors, parents, schools, and local communities.

  • Our team reviews the briefing every month and adds new alerts as we track new scams. See the latest on the Threat Landscape page.

  • Act quickly. Call your bank using the number on your card, change the passwords for any affected accounts, and keep screenshots of the messages or calls. Then report it to the relevant authorities and contact us so we can guide you on next steps.

  • Yes. We work with schools, NGOs, and community groups. Join the community or get in touch to start the conversation.

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We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

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The minimum information we need to register you is your name, email address and a password. We will ask you more questions for different services, including sales promotions. Unless we say otherwise, you have to answer all the registration questions. We may also ask some other, voluntary questions during registration for certain services (for example, professional networks) so we can gain a clearer understanding of who you are. This also allows us to personalise services for you. To assist us in our marketing, in addition to the data that you provide to us if you register, we may also obtain data from trusted third parties to help us understand what you might be interested in. This ‘profiling’ information is produced from a variety of sources, including publicly available data (such as the electoral roll) or from sources such as surveys and polls where you have given your permission for your data to be shared. You can choose not to have such data shared with the Guardian from these sources by logging into your account and changing the settings in the privacy section. After you have registered, and with your permission, we may send you emails we think may interest you. Newsletters may be personalised based on what you have been reading on theguardian.com. At any time you can decide not to receive these emails and will be able to ‘unsubscribe’. Logging in using social networking credentials If you log-in to our sites using a Facebook log-in, you are granting permission to Facebook to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth and location which will then be used to form a Guardian identity. You can also use your picture from Facebook as part of your profile. This will also allow us and Facebook to share your, networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Facebook account settings. If you remove the Guardian app from your Facebook settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a Google log-in, you grant permission to Google to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth, sex and location which we will then use to form a Guardian identity. You may use your picture from Google as part of your profile. This also allows us to share your networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Google account settings. If you remove the Guardian from your Google settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a twitter log-in, we receive your avatar (the small picture that appears next to your tweets) and twitter username.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

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We offer a ‘My details’ page (also known as Dashboard), where you can update your personal information at any time, and change your marketing preferences. You can get to this page from most pages on the site – simply click on the ‘My details’ link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

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