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Middle East: From Cold War to Cold Cyberwar
Since history is a mirror to the future, we will take a look at “Cold War” era and its effect on Middle East region in order to understand how “Cold Cyberwar” would affect us sooner or later. Cold War...
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Muslim Brotherhood “hacked” Saudi Cybercrime law!
Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt criticized of copying cybercrime law from Saudi Arabia, Al Ahram newspaper stated. Activists in Facebook and Twitter...
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Middle East loses control in the Cyber Battlefield
Kaspersky Lab announced the discovery of a highly sophisticated malicious program that is actively being used as a cyber weapon attacking entities in several countries. The complexity and...
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Digital Espionage in the Middle East
Kaspersky lab announced the discovery of new sophisticated malware targeting Middle East. The new malware is called “Gauss” and infected over 1660 machines in Lebanon alone. Kaspersky reported that...
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Saudi Aramco cyber attack, are we ready?
When I published my research “Cybercrime in the Middle East” about 5 years ago, I predicted that our region will be in big trouble sooner or later. My public speaking at national and international...
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The Power of Social Media in Middle East
Social Networks and web 2.0 applications played an important role in Arab uprising, political scene, and conflicts between all parties. The growth of user base in the Middle East especially on...
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Cybercrime Challenges in Middle East
Introduction Advanced communication technologies open the door to advancement of humanity and crimes as well. But Legislation and legislators are always slower than the development of ICTs leaving our...
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Human Rights and the Internet in Middle East
“The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” - John Perry Barlow Since its appearance in Middle East, the Internet has played crucial role in all aspects of life and...
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Blocking YouTube: Is that all what we can do?
The amateurish and controversial trailer of the movie “Innocence of Muslims”[1] which posted on YouTube was behind violent riots[2] all over the Middle East[3]. Paradoxically, most notable events were...
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Middle East and NSA leaks
The latest NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden[i] sparked constitutional clash in the US and other European countries. These leaks revealed also that Middle East countries were under surveillance in...
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NSA Surveillance: From Merkel’s Phone to Middle East Chaos
“Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.” – John Rhys-Davies...
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Middle East Cyber Security Threat Report 2014
Since my last cybercrime research in 2008[1], cyber security threats have grown and matured. Subsequently, cybercriminals and even terrorists have become capable of carrying out sophisticated...
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3rd Annual Cyber Security for Energy & Utilities
GCC’s critical infrastructure is complex and diverse, combining systems in both cyberspace and the physical world from oil and gas fields, power plants, aluminum plants, communication networks and the...
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Tech Talk TV Show
Tech Talk TV Show TechTalk is the first TV program in the Middle East to raise the awareness of technology and its effects on society. The program episodes provide variety of technical topics in forms...
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Middle East Dilemma from the Caliphate to Open Source Jihad
Since 2008, the Internet and cyberspace tools were the most important sources of dissenting opinion[1] in Middle East and second to private media such as Aljazeera. Thence, it played crucial role in...
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Hacking Team in Middle East: From Italy with Love!
It’s now indisputable fact that governments in the Middle East are using spyware to spot political activists rather than terrorists or criminals. I wrote many articles about this phenomenon since the...
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Cyber Security Is Everyone’s Responsibility
New Senior Member and ISSA Egypt Chapter President Mohamed N. El-Guindy has taken to the airwaves, interviewed with newspapers and magazines, participated in NGOs and governmental initiatives,...
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IEEE interviewed Dr. El-Guindy
Cyber security expert and host of a television show? It is not every day that we come across an IEEE volunteer involved in these two distinct fields. Dr. El Guindy is a frequent blogger on...
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Cyber Espionage in Middle East
Four years ago, I predicted that Middle East will witness new era of cyber espionage and cyber-attacks. Many IT specialists and system administrators and even policymakers didn’t believe what I said....
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Participation in UNESCO Conference
Mohamed El-Guindy participated in UNESCO International Conference Media and Information Literacy for Building Culture of Open Government (6-10 June 2016). El-Guindy represented Egypt in the...
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