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Advisory for School – COVID-19 Lockdown

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Advisory -Online Netiquettes During #Lockdown #COVID-19 Author : Rakshit Tandon , Cyber Safety Expert , Consultant- Internet and Mobile Association of India, Director/Co-Founder – HACKERSHALA/CODESNAG Email : [email protected] Facebook : tandon.rakshit Instagram : rakshit.tandon Twitter: tandonrakshit

For Teaches/ Students /Parents

A. Online Classes / Video Lessons / Live Interactions

a. Teachers – Should familiar themselves to the platform been used for classes. Microsoft Team/ Google Hangouts or ZOOM

b. Features – Privacy / Security to be taken care. For ZOOM Users

c. Meeting Passwords Enabled “On” Going forward, your previously scheduled meetings (including those scheduled via your Personal Meeting ID) will have passwords enabled. If your attendees are joining via a meeting link, there will be no change to their joining experience. For attendees who join meetings by manually entering a Meeting ID, they will need to enter a password to access the meeting.

d. For attendees joining manually, we highly recommend re-sharing the updated meeting invitationbefore your workweek begins. Here’s how you can do that: Log in to your account, visit your Meetings tab, select your upcoming meeting by name, and copy the new meeting invitation to share with your attendees. For meetings scheduled moving forward, the meeting password can be found in the invitation. For instant meetings, the password will be displayed in the Zoom client. The password can also be found in the meeting join URL.

e. Virtual Waiting Room Turned on by Default Going forward, the virtual waiting room feature will be automatically turned on by default. The Waiting Room is just like it sounds: It’s a virtual staging area that prevents people from joining a meeting until the host is ready.

f. How do I admit participants into my meeting? It’s simple. As the host, once you’ve joined, you’ll begin to see the number of participants in your waiting room within the Manage Participants icon. Select Manage Participants to view the full list of participants, then, you’ll have the option to admit individually by selecting the

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blue Admit button or all at once with the Admit All option on the top right-hand side of your screen

g. Security Toolbar Icon for Hosts The meeting host will now have a Security option in their meeting controls, which exposes all of Zoom’s existing in-meeting security controls in one place. This includes locking the meeting, enabling Waiting Room, and more. Users can also now enable Waiting Room in a meeting, even if the feature was not turned on before the start of the meeting.

h. Invite Button on Meeting Client Toolbar The button to invite others to join your Zoom meeting is now available at the bottom of the Participants panel.

i. Meeting ID No Longer Displayed The meeting ID will no longer be displayed in the title bar of the Zoom meeting window. The meeting ID can be found by clicking on Participants, then Invite or by clicking on the info icon at the top left of the client window.

j. Remove Attendee Attention Tracking Feature Zoom has removed the attendee attention tracker feature as part of our commitment to the security and privacy of our customers.

k. Removal of the Facebook SDK in our iOS client We have reconfigured the feature so that users will still be able to log in with Facebook via their browser.

l. File Transfers The option to do third-party file transfers in Meeting and Chat was temporarily disabled. Local file transfer is available with our latest release. Third-party file transfers and clickable URLs in meeting chat will be added back in an upcoming release.

m. New Join Flow for the Web client By default, users will now need to sign in to their Zoom account or create a Zoom account when joining a meeting with the Web client. This can be disabled by the Admin or the User from their settings page.

n. Join Before Host Emails Disabled Notifications sent to the host via email when participants are waiting for the host to join the meeting have been disabled.

o. Setting to Allow Participants to Rename Themselves Account admins and hosts can now disable the ability for participants to rename themselves in any meeting. This setting is available at the account, group, and user level in the Web portal.

p. Language for Directory and Company Directory Domain contacts: The language in your Company directory and Directory has changed. ‘Directory’ is now referred to as ‘Contacts’, ‘My Groups’ has changed to ‘My Contacts’, and ‘Company Directory’ is now listed as ‘All Contacts’ in version 4.6.10.

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q. Domain Contacts Visibility

r. For free Basic and single licensed Pro accounts with unmanaged domains, contacts in the same domain will no longer be visible. We’ve also removed the option to auto-populate your Contacts list with users from the same domain. If you would like to keep those contacts, you can add them as External Contacts. Students a. Don’t share your class invites/ Links with anyone who is not a part of your school or

Class. b. Those who are not able to attend session please inform the Teacher/School formally. c. Students should have prior permission from teachers to record session. d. Keep your identity safe and don’t share passwords or Identity with anyone.

Few Law Breaking Examples a. Faking Name/ Identity – Section 66 D of IT Act b. Hacking someone Account and using it – Section 66 C of IT Act c. Person making a Fake Account with Someone else name or PIC- Section 66D of IT

act d. Posting/Sharing/Forwarding Obscene Content – Sec 67 of IT Act e. Posting/Sharing/Forwarding Vulgar Inappropriate Content- Sec 67A of IT act f. Posting/Sharing/Forwarding Non Consensual Private Images/Videos- Sec 66 E and

Sec 67 A or Sec 67B

Some Important IT Act Laws to remember

• Section 66C of the IT Act deals punishment for identity theft and says that whoever, fraudulently or dishonestly make use of the electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine with may extend to rupees one lakh.

• Sec 66D of the IT Act deals with punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resource, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees.

• Section 66E Whoever, intentionally or knowingly captures, publishes or transmits the image of a private area of any person without his or her consent, under circumstances violating the privacy of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years or with fine not exceeding two lakh rupees, or with both

• Section 67 Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form. -Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published or transmitted in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees and in the event of second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees.

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• Section 67A Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form. -Whoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published or transmitted in the electronic form any material which contains sexually explicit act or conduct shall be punished on first conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees and in the event of second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years and also with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees

Students should take care of Screen Time . Parents to help kids to manage screen time.

Advice for Parents a. Create activities with children during lockdown which can help to reduce screen time.

Eg. Cooking, Gardening, Housekeeping, Games with Family , Singing , Dancing etc.

b. Fix Screen time for yourself and kids both. c. Like we keep update and prepare our kids for school same we have to be connected to

kids for online classes . Keep regular update of classes and educate children to maintain discipline in Online Sessions. NOTE : Indiscipline in real classroom is managed , controlled and punished by Teacher and the matter dissolves . But one mistake in Online /Virtual Classroom is forever as ** screenshots, Forwards, recordings… So kids need to be taught Digital Manners to behave in online classes.

d. Beware of Online Frauds happening in Virtual World.

Fraudsters try following tricks to cash in on the Coronavirus fear:

• Malware attacks disguised as sensationalised COVID-19 news or Charity pleas • Coronavirus-themed spam spreading malicious malware • COVID-19 themed phishing emails impersonating Centers for Disease Control & Prevention • A global email phishing scam carrying the logo of the WHO • Malicious coronavirus map hiding info-stealing malware etc.

To keep viral attacks at bay, first disinfect that your system through following steps:

• To safeguard your devices from such COVID-19 malwares, install reliable and updated anti-virus and anti-spyware.

• Ensure that the websites you use for financial transactions are authentic and encrypted with https in URL.

• To avoid yourself from getting trapped, type the URL on the browser instead of clicking on links sent to you through email, chat or any other way.

• For financial transactions, don’t use public WiFi or any open network.

Also take following precautions to stay protected:

• Don’t authorise any transaction without verifying properly. • Don’t share your personal and financial details along with OTP. • Don’t download any app from an unknown source, link.

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** Picture from #CyberDost – MHA Govt of India #mygovindia