21/04/2014
Almalik during East Chamber meeting: many citizens are unaware of their rights
"Communications and Information Technology," warns of the danger of informatics crimes
The communications and information technology Commission warned of serious crimes, which go beyond awareness of personal boundaries to the cultural, social and economic. The Director of public relations and media spokesperson for communications and information technology Commission Sultan bin Mohammed Malik, in a meeting hosted by the East Chamber on Monday morning, 21 April 2014 with a view to raising awareness of computer related crimes control that not many people know this, don't know the penalties for committing crimes, risks affecting the individual, the community which unaware of their rights should be obtained from the competent authorities in case of any kind of computer related crimes.
The meeting was attended by a number of business and technical information specialist in Informatics crimes to the communications and information technology Mohammad bin Khalaf Al-Ghamdi, a specialist in information security in communications and information technology Commission, Omar al-suhaibani said. He recalled that cybercrime is committed through the use of a computer or computer network and are for personal motives as revenge, or such economic gains or political or espionage or social, such as drug trafficking and promote deviant ideas affecting national security. He said that the crimes of leaking confidential communications: information and dissemination, identity theft, defamation, extortion, hacking websites, and online scams. Stressing that the computer related crimes control aims to reduce these crimes to help achieve security and save rights of legitimate use of computers, and protect the public interest, ethics and morals, and the protection of the national economy.
Reviewed a number of owner acts falling within the information crimes punishable by imprisonment of not more than one year and a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand riyals, including tapping what is sent through the network computer, or a computer without justification systems right, of the illegal entry of threat or blackmail him and make him do or abstain from doing any act, if that act or omission, as well as illegal entry into a website, or access to the website to change Website designs, or destroyed or modified, or job title, and compromising privacy through the misuse of mobile phones with the camera or the like, defamation and harm through information technologies.
He added that the crimes that unduly formal access to Bank data or credit, or data relating to the ownership of securities for data, information, or services, that allow him to produce what would prejudice the public order, or religious values or morals, or privacy, or set up, or sent, or storage through the Internet or a computer, said the crimes also create site for terrorist organizations on the Web, or a Computer or published, to facilitate communication with the leadership of incendiary devices, explosives, or any tool used in terrorist acts, as well as a Web site for promotion of drugs or pornographic activities against literature or published or promoted. . And other examples of computer related crimes control.
He called for awareness of the seriousness of these crimes, human rights awareness, learning and training in methods of dealing with it. That mission is to provide support and assistance to the community and relevant stakeholders during the stages of tuning information crimes, investigation, courts, and for this purpose the Commission published many informational advertising material.
