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Access Now’s Digital Security helpline

24/05/2023

Access Now’s Digital Security helpline can help improve your digital security practices to keep out of harm’s way. If you’re already under attack, you can contact the hotline 24/7 for rapid-response emergency assistance with support in nine languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Arabic, and Italian. The Helpline will walk you or your organization through assessing the risks you face in your work, and together we’ll prioritize your digital security needs. They will help you resolve existing problems, teach you some of the most important best practices, and help you get into a secure mindset for the future. (updated)

See also:

How Journalists and Human Rights Defenders are Targeted Online: A Detailed Report on the Middle East and North Africa (2019)

Access Now has also published a report on methods used to target HRDs in the MENA region. https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2019/06/MENA-report.pdf (English only PDF.)