IT SOCIETY committee of Information Technology Department conducted a workshop on ELECTRONIC EXTORTION for ICT students on Tuesday, 20th February 2018 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in ICT main hall.

Problems of electronic extortion , methods of extortion and ways how to avoid such extortions were main issues discussed in the workshop. It was conducted by IT student volunteers namely Assad Al-Shabibi and Said Al-Zakwani.

This workshop aimed to display how hacking is done on mobile phones and PCs using WhatsApp and other software. Presenters demonstrated more samples of how hacking is done and how hacking can be avoided.

In addition they gave rich ideas about how we can protect our PC's and mobile phones from hacking. The workshop was attended by 26 students from IT Dept. Participants were happy and quite satisfied with the skills and information given in the workshop. This workshop indeed motivated our students to make use of college resources in an effective way.