The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the UAE
reported the highest levels of malware de-
tections in the Middle East over the past
year, according to Trend Micro Incorpo-
rated.
For the top 10 malware detections in each
country, Saudi registered 11.01 million in-
stances, and the UAE counted 10.26 mil-
lion instances, from June 2013 to May
2014, according to statistics gathered from
Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network
Feedback.
According to Trend Micro’s report “The Mo-
bile Landscape Roundup: 1H 2014”, the
types of global mobile malware will grow
from 2 million in the first half of 2014 to a
record 3 million in the second half of the
same year.
A study by Gartner Inc. revealed that the
public cloud services market in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) region is on
pace to grow 21 percent in 2014 to total
$747 million, up from $616 million in 2013,
according to Gartner, Inc.
Software as a service (SaaS), the largest
single segment of the cloud services mar-
ket in MENA, is expected to grow 28 per-
cent in 2014 to $166 million.
Gartner also predicts that from 2014
through 2018, $5.5 billion will be spent on
cloud services in MENA region, $1.7 billion
of which will be spent on business process
as a service (BPaaS).
21 percent growth
in public cloud
computing services
UAE and Saudi
report highest level
of malware threats
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According to joint research by Kaspersky
Lab and B2B International, 29% of users
in the UAE have lost either money or im-
portant information as a result of their chil-
dren’s online activity. This number propos-
es that, in addition to the risk of children
encountering cyberthreats, they can also
cause inadvertent problems for their par-
ents. However, 28% of respondents in the
UAE believe their children know little about
computer technology and 28% believe
their kids know nothing of cyberthreats.
That same lack of awareness poses risks
for parents who allow their children to use
their online devices. 17% of respondents
said their children had accidentally deleted
important information, while 10% faced
unexpected bills from app stores after their
children used the internet. In general, ev-
ery fifth polled parent admitted they had
had an experience of losing money or
important data because of their children’s
activities.
Even though, only one third of parents in
the UAE are really attentive to the danger:
just 34% are concerned that their children
may spend money online without their
knowledge, and only 27% are worried that
their kids share confidential information
online.
Children online activities behind 29% of
UAE families’ loss of money and data
