UAE – On May 15th 2016 it was announced that a delegation of Ajman Municipality and Planning Department visited in Dubai Smart Government (DSG) and studied the smart services field, including the development of government websites, smart phones and electronic services such as MyID, allowing direct access in the UAE for over 640 services provided […]
On April 26th were published the comments of the Egyptian ICT Minister that unauthorized internet connections are one of the main causes of poor ADSL service and the national authority of telecommunications regulation (NTRA) intends to create a regional licenses in order to eliminate unauthorized connections. Today there are internet distributors that work in an […]
Governance – On May 7th, it was announced that two political parties in the Netherlands are calling for sanctions on Israel because “the ongoing violations of Palestinian rights.” Green Left Party issued a decision, on April 24th, confirming the call to pause the agreement between Israel and the EU. 66 Democrats called on April 16th […]
The information technology and communication markets in the Middle East are growing fast, and investment in these areas should stand at approximately 213 billion, with an increase of 3.7% since 2015, including investments in areas such as the IoT and smart cities as generators of economic growth beyond the traditional reliance on oil. As part […]
The UAE is becoming a growing target for cyber crime both domestically and externally. This is because; it is a central axis in the Middle East, mainly due to developed infrastructure of information systems, connectivity, business environment and being the focus of many international organizations, as well as having a high international profile. All these […]
On May 11th it was reported that four young Egyptians, members of the Street Children band were detained for 15 days on charges of spreading on social networks and on their YouTube channel, a video, which was filmed by a mobile phone, mocking the Egyptian government after the transfer of two islands in the Red […]
A research made by FireEye regarding cyber crime group named FIN6 was published on April 21st. FIN6 hacked to many retail and hospitality businesses and stole 20 million credit cards worth 400 million USD. The cards were then sold in dedicated forums of cyber crime in the darknet, so they can be used for acts […]
On April 19th it was reported that the Europol along with Italian security forces had arrested 16 Romanian citizens who have been operating an extensive network of Skimming type fraud against ATMs in Italy, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Authorities caught a lot of equipment including computers and phones together with credit cards duplication equipment […]
On April 14th the existence of a new malware in the banking world was reported, the malware is named GozNym. This resulted in theft of 4 million USD within a few days of 24 banks in the US and Canada whose names have not been published yet. This new malware is named after two previous […]
Posted on April 12th, a joint study made by Trend Micro and the Cyber Crime Center (EC3) of the Europol. The research deals with malwares against ATMs. The study examines the threats and the types of malware activity against more than three million existing ATM devices worldwide, which provide an amount of approximately 8.6 billion […]
On May 3rd, it was posted in the BusinessKorea that the Ministry of Science, technology, information and communication (ICT), and future plans in South Korea announced a joint examination with Iran of the Memorandum of Understanding regarding cooperation on ICT, which was signed in 1990, while renewing the cooperation in this field through the cooperation […]
On April 25th, it was reported that the Turkish hacker group Bozkurtlar announced in its Twitter account (which has since been closed), and on a video, that it was able to break into the computers of Qatar National Bank (QNB) and steal information. It was also announced that another bank was hacked, from which the […]
On May 1st, it was reported that according to a Saudi security expert, in 2015 the kingdom had faces 60 million cyber attacks particularly against the oil, gas, water desalination, banking and telecommunications sectors. He added that Saudi Arabia is one of the most sensitive countries in the Middle East to such attacks because of […]
On April 20, it was reported that the National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) in the UAE will host the third annual competition in the field of cyber security for students aged 12-18, which will be held during the 1st – 3rd of May. The competition was created in order to encourage the students to take […]
On April 7th it was reported that the Qatari company Ooredoo (via Ooredoo Tunisia) completed successfully the deployment of 4G infrastructure in Tunisia, which will enable the provision of new and faster services for consumers. As part of this process, a new package was launched with VoD services as well as online storage services with […]
On April 23rd it was reported that the government of Saudi Arabia has invested about 120 billion Reals (about 32 billion USD) in the development of the telecommunication and information technology sectors during 2015. This message was delivered at the opening of the Conference of High Performance Computing in the kingdom (SAHPC), which was sponsored […]
On April 17th it was a report concerning the 4th quarter of 2015 was published by the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. As part of the report, data concerning the country’s telecom market was published; Use costs – compared to 2014, there was a decrease in the costs of internet services The share […]
On April 14th, it was reported that Kurdistan Iraq declared its internet independence by starting using the general internet domain name (gTLDs) .krd, which is opened now for use by private companies, organizations and individual users. It should be noted that this is not a country domain name (ccTLD). The domain name was given already […]