University of Basra Organizes a Workshop on Cyber Extortion
The Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Basra organized an awareness workshop on cyber extortion, introducing students to the concept of cyber extortion and its common methods, and explaining its negative psychological, social and legal effects.
The workshop aims to educate students about the dangers of cyber extortion.
The workshop, which was lectured by Dr. Jafar Mohammed Oweid and Dr. Huda Faleh Al Saad, included analyzing the reasons that may lead young people to become victims of such crimes, and providing them with prevention and digital safety skills, such as protecting privacy, dealing correctly with suspicious messages or links, and ways to report cases of extortion.
The workshop recommended that students should be alert, prevent and safe from cyber extortion, especially for female students, and to enhance students' awareness and enable them to behave properly when exposed to any extortion attempt or threat online.
Department of Media and Government Communication
