He warned in a workshop at the "Sharjah Book Fair" of strange applications
A "cyber" expert identifies steps to reduce cyberbullying and harassment
Abdel Nour during his presentation of the workshop.
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Awareness expert, cybersecurity advisor for individuals, Abdelnour Sami, identified several steps to reduce cyberbullying and harassment, which would eliminate 90% of the portals and channels used by bullies and harassers, in the virtual world.
He told "Emirates Today": "The most important steps that protect individuals from electronic bullying and harassment are to pay close attention to the application (privacy setting), to ensure that it is activated continuously, limit communication with strangers, and activate the feature to hide profanity and immoral words on accounts. Everyone is on social media.”
Sami mentioned a number of steps that achieve electronic protection for a person when he uses smart devices and operates his accounts on social media platforms, including “awareness”, which is the most important step in protection, and the second step is “caution” against dealing with strange applications and links, explaining that awareness creates caution and caution. It creates security, and he said: “Hackers and scammers develop their skills first-hand. Awareness must be constantly evolving as well, and they are always looking for loopholes and trolling digital errors to penetrate individuals, and to apply awareness, they must be familiar with the most important concepts, terms and mechanisms of work, and then apply safe steps.” .
As for the third step, it is applying and acquiring the necessary skill to deal with smart devices, which depends on a set of scientific steps, including not sharing sensitive data about the person, as hackers are looking for loopholes to penetrate, and not to enter unknown links even if they come from known parties, and putting A strong password, because the capabilities of hackers develop in accessing passwords, the stronger the password, the more difficult it is and takes longer to access it.
He stressed the importance of downloading applications from approved sources only, as many individuals have been exposed to viruses, and hacking in general, because they seek to download paid applications for free, and there is nothing for free without interest. In Office applications, Office Word, for example, and Adobe applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, because it is required, so the person is exposed to penetration through this application or resorts to opening more than “Snapchat and WhatsApp” and others, so he downloads programs called Plus for example “WhatsApp Plus” And “Snapchat Plus”, which is prohibited by the parent company, and downloading it leads to account closure, knowing that all messages that go through it are spied on, as they are linked to other intermediary companies between the user and the parent company.In a workshop at the "Social Media Station" pavilion at the Sharjah International Book Fair, Sami explained the mechanism of hiding immoral clips on YouTube, which parents of children suffer from, and it is necessary to select search results on Google that are scientifically and practically useful, adding: "I advise against Download applications and programs that burden the phone, and choose well-known programs to carry out the tasks that a person needs, without repeating the download of more than one program in the field.
• Many individuals have been exposed to viruses, because they sought to download paid applications for free.
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