Dubai: Protecting online accounts is a dual responsibility as it is both the responsibility of the company (or website) and the user, a Dubai Police official said.
“If a company does not know how to secure their website, we help them,” Lieutenant Colonel Saeed Al Hajiri, Director of the Cyber Investigation Department at Dubai Police, said.
He said that the department can provide assistance to start-up companies or UAE-based companies and help them provide an effective security system for their users, whether it’s securing online transactions or providing secure services online.
“We help protect people from fraud and abuse by people on the internet” he said.
People should not upload photos they would mind being made public on public accounts, and even private accounts are not too secure, Lt Col Al Hajiri said.
He explained that if someone wants to get information, even from secure accounts, as long as it is available on the internet they can find a way to get around those security measures, so people should be very careful.
People should also be careful about where they access their online bank accounts from. Lt Col Al Hajiri said, “One should not access their online bank accounts from public computers, such as from internet cafes.”
