Call for “Cybersecurity in the Middle-East” Fellowship by Cybersecurity Project at the Belfer Center
The number of cybercrimes and cyber attacks in Iraq are growing over the last 10 years and the information taken from the Iraqi Department of Cybercrimes for the years 2006-2011 describes cybercrime types and their properties. The results illustrate that among all types of cybercrimes committed during the past six years, the top four were distributed over the Internet such as Internet cheating, theft, cyber piracy and crime sex. The results illustrate that 81.1% were commited by males; 45.5% by high school students; 63.1% were commited alone; and 23.7% were committed by presently registered scholars. For those registered scholars committing cybercrimes, the results show that the proportion of high school students counted for 69.0% in 2009, 76.1% in 2010 and 62.7% in 2011. The high percentage illustrates that the numbers of presently enrolled scholars committing cybercrimes are a cause for worry. About the cyber attacks, no region has seen more cyber attacks than the Middle E...