Community Community Nepali Astronomer community expert P6comes P16 from Qatar together to celebrate Calendar House talks Loshar Festival, about four lunar, two organised by Tamu solar eclipses to be Society Qatar. observed in 2020. Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Jumada I 6, 1441 AH Doha today: 180 - 270 COVER Cybersecurity STORY How to wear caution to make yourself safe this year. P4-5 2020 HOLLYWOOD Pakistani stars reveal Obama reveals TV shows he their New Year resolutions. deemed ‘as powerful as movies’. Page 8-9 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 1, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.57am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.21am Zuhr (noon) 11.38am Asr (afternoon) 2.37pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.56pm Isha (night) 6.26pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Jumanji: The Next Level The players need to brave parts unknown, from arid deserts Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 DIRECTION: Jake Kasdan to snowy mountains, in order to escape the world’s most Local Directory 180 CAST: Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black dangerous game. International Calls Enquires 150 SYNOPSIS: A team of friends return to Jumanji to rescue Hamad International Airport 40106666 one of their own but discover that nothing is as they expect. THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Dabangg 3 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 DIRECTION: Qatar General Electricity and Prabhu Deva Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 CAST: Salman Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 Khan, Warina 44593363 Hussain, Sonakshi Qatar Assistive Technology Sinha Centre 44594050 SYNOPSIS: Qatar News Agency 44450205 The fi lm is a sequel 44450333 to the 2012 fi lm Q-Post – General Postal Dabangg 2 and the Corporation 44464444 third instalment of Dabangg fi lm series. Humanitarian Services Offi ce The further exploits (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) of Chulbul Pandey – Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, India’s most lovable 40253369 cop. Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 THEATRES: Qatar Airways 40253374 Landmark, Royal Plaza, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “Always turn e a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordon Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Wednesday, January 1, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY WHEN: January 15 – July 1 TIME: 6:30pm – 9pm Get trained by experts to be a good speaker. Smedley Toastmasters is conducting a six-month speech-craft programme that teaches new members to speak confi dently and develop leadership skills. For more information, 66053485, 33232490 or visit www.SmedleyToastmasters.org Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN: Saturday – Friday Mamangam is an art and performance centre started with a vision of spreading our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across diff erent countries for children and adults. Mamangam has become the favourite The Colour Run 2020 water sports, Winter Dragon Boat Festival centre for learning. We off er regular classes WHERE: QNCC is back to show us their fast rowing skills. in the following disciplines like traditional WHEN: January 25 Dragon boating is a canoe-sport and was classical and folk dance forms, art and TIME: 7am – 10pm originally a traditional festival game dating craft, drawing and painting, personality Your Health First is a fi ve-kilometre, back 2,000 years throughout Southern development and public speaking, Bollywood untimed event. At each kilometre mark, China. It has now become a popular sport dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music Colour Runners are doused from head to toe with competitions held around the world. both vocals and instrumentals. To develop in a diff erent coloured powder. Participants health consciousness, we train them karate, wear white at the starting line and fi nish the yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. race plastered in colour. Once the 5k is over, Mamangam has also come up with chess and the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a robotics in regular batches in an attempt to larger-than-life party equipped with music, give a better learning experience, as they dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, sharpen their minds and brains too. and more massive colour throws, which For those who wish to register for more create millions of vivid colour combinations. details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Gems and Jewels Exhibition WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Shop Qatar 2020 WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 WHERE: Malls in Qatar TIME: 9am onwards WHEN: January 7 – January 3 The exhibition comes in celebration of TIME: Entire day the Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture and Shop Qatar has something for everyone, presents a look at magnifi cent gems and including beauty masterclasses, fashion jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and shows, shopping off ers, mall activities and Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases shows, raffl e draws, and Chinese New Year more than 100 pieces from across Qatar Metro Street Food After School Activities celebrations. Museums’ (QM) collections, including many WHERE: DECC Metro Station WHERE: Atelier masterpieces that have never been displayed WHEN: January 2020 onwards WHEN: Ongoing before. TIME: 12:30pm Music and arts activities for students Spring Festival 2019 Street Food is the ideal venue for a leisure taking place after they fi nish their day in WHERE: Souq Waqif experience for the whole family off ering over school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- WHEN: Ongoing till January 4 20 dine-in options and 18-hole World Mini- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama TIME: 4pm – 10pm Golf setup. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 The third edition of the Spring Festival at years old after school hours. features an array of cultural programmes and entertainment activities. Around 60 games Ballet Lessons and rides are open. Circus shows will be also WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier staged. WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C-Ring Road Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 1, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Cyber-secure your space With ever more tech in our lives, our data is vulnerable. Davey Winder lists six top tips to keep it safe in the new year echnology is Digital Shadows. You can F-Secure. A long password is changing our lives see if any of yours have been most secure. Even if you’ve for the better; yet compromised already by going set up a fingerprint scan to it’s also exposing us to haveibeenpwned.com If unlock your phone, it will ask to organised crime, you think coming up with a for your pin or password after Tonline scammers and hackers unique, long and random, a few unsuccessful attempts. A — and whole industries built complex password that you can thief can try to guess your pin around monetising our personal remember for every account (and 0000 is still a common data. But you don’t have to be you use is impossible, you’d option) or obvious password. resigned to cyber-victimhood. be right. Unless you use a Smartphones can be configured Give yourself, and your devices, password-manager app, such to automatically perform a a security update for 2020 and as LastPass or 1Password, factory reset, wiping all your start fighting back. which will not only generate data, after a certain number the passwords for each site, of incorrect unlock attempts. Random and unique but also store them securely For Android check Settings/ passwords and then automatically use the Security & Location/Screen A study carried out by the right ones when you need to log lock, and on iPhones, Settings/ Ponemon Institute found in. All you need to remember is Face ID & passcode/Erase data. that 51% of individuals in the the master password to unlock UK reuse an average of five the app, and most will let Secure your dumb ‘smart’ passwords across different you use your fingerprint on a speakers sites and services. “This makes smartphone instead of entering While you may have read your accounts far easier to this every time. about smart speakers being hack,” says Nic Sarginson, at risk from hackers with senior solutions engineer Smartphone self-destruct maliciously crafted audio tracks at security firm Yubico. “By Yes, seriously. Your or lasers (yes, seriously), in gaining access to one account smartphone is a treasure the real world there are more an attacker could quite easily trove of data, and while your pressing security and privacy crack another.” It’s the cyber- passwords are likely to be issues to consider. The account equivalent of having one key safe from prying eyes (your holder can see any requests that unlocks your front door, password manager will keep that have been made of the your office, your car and the them encrypted), what about device; worth remembering bank for good measure, and your e-mail, social media apps, when using one at a friend’s then keeping a spare under contacts etc? Criminals can house. To prevent this, tell the doormat. “Every year use these to change passwords, Alexa to “delete what I just billions of credentials such as take account control away said”, and Google Assistant to e-mail addresses, passwords from you, and commit fraud “delete my last conversation”.