“Army Pentest” virtual arena to repel enemy attacks

“Army Pentest” virtual arena to repel enemy attacks

Each home-rebounds: according to a report by the Gulf stream where day after day showing the GCC interest in dealing with electronic threats as a threat to the region, the social-networking platforms recently became an important source of sectarian and terrorist attacks more aimed at spreading hatred and chaos in the region.

At a time when the world’s major electronic attacks, those threats prompted a large segment of Saudi society to cope with and confront this phenomenon in similar ways.

Volunteer teams is not associated with the Government a new shift in fending off cyber attacks against Saudi Arabia in recent years, including what is known as “Army Pentest.

-Hostile attacks repelled

Okaz newspaper, Wednesday, joining more than 150 Saudi Saudi volunteer team aims to fend off cyber attacks anti-sectarian and terrorism published by Kingdom and chaos in the country.

The paper said that the volunteer group that carries the name “army of milkfish, the largest voluntary national block in the Middle, the number exceeded 500 volunteers and volunteer, noting the large representation of girls in the group; the” Twitter “to defend their country in front of enemy accounts spread black and calling for the spreading sectarianism and terrorism.

And adopt “Army Pentest” national handstand against accounts targeting home security report published through their accounts managed from outside Saudi Arabia.

And aspire to be a national force supported by local businessmen, media and officials to contribute to repel vicious cyber-attacks against the country and future generations, with efforts to improve the work of the army.

The issue began to form a virtual army of an increasingly serious cyber attacks on the Kingdom, and develop mechanisms to repel these attacks and broken, and promote community awareness of volunteer tasks and close every account antagonizes the homeland, said the Army Chief, Aziz Al-Qahtani to okaz.

The army draws from virtual space Theatre, the attention of the sons of the Kingdom to the danger of electronic attacks against their country, and the need for a mechanism to repel these attacks and broken, and the importance of volunteerism.

-Electronic collections

According to Al Qahtani, managed business “Army Pentest” through groups; each has a specific goal and advance mechanism: Twitter for State leadership, achievements and community outreach, communications and anti-terrorist accounts home directions and driving people.

He adds that there are groups to design and montage, and another for technical support and support of national accounts and the group to monitor the “tags” hostile, accounts client group and mandasa for rehabilitation and training new members, oversees the group a member of the group management and guidance.

The idea of electronic military campaigns after the Kingdom was subjected over the past years, showed how Saudi need an electronic umbrella championed across the virtual world; to repel attacks and breakthroughs in their hostility to bum in Saudi Arabia contacts, by creating tags offensive to sow sedition and deflate it, according to military planners.

Army planners deny email links bye government institutions, their individual efforts and national motives, while emphasizing the importance of supporting this work and its increase to 1000 volunteers and work according to requirements that include modern equipment and good programs to compete with electronic clusters work as hostile.

– Data piracy.

Topping Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates first and second place Gulf exposed to cybercrime, according to reports and statistics company “trend micro”, famous in the field of protection and combating viruses, noted in a report published in 2009 to more than 700 000 formal collapse in only 9 months in Saudi Arabia alone, with Saudi Arabia ranked first by up to 64%, followed by 20% Emirates, at Bay.

The priority for the pirates and hackers to steal sensitive data such as credit card and personal details, and the Gulf States and their citizens a tempting target for them, pose a hazard at the time where it is difficult to prosecute or reach them mainly their existence outside the geographical scope of their frauds, according to trend micro.

– Invest in brains

In a curious regionally, the first Arab Saudi Arabia announced in early 2016 embrace and attract hundreds of “ethical hackers,” to take advantage of the professional class pose a significant phenomenon in the electronic sphere, an appreciated; exposed serious gaps in the international sites.

Inducement is these pirates and integrate them into the Government’s efforts, on two fronts: ensuring information security threats, and turning them into a defensive line on the State and its organs associated with the Internet.

And “the ethical hackers,” is a common expression about information security experts who are baptized to pirate websites to discover gaps, to remedy it, not exploit them.

Electronic intrusions caused by Internet hackers in a number of international crises, from months of piracy resulted in “leaked Wikileaks documents,” and “attacks on visa services,” and “NATO site”, “u.s. Department of Justice,” the White House, and many others.

Internet hackers could hack websites, among them, those that can be described as “sovereign”, in addition to banking sites and sites which includes an extensive database of users, and damage to computers to their victims, and extortion activities, for the purpose of receiving funds, Bank data and other personal data privacy, threaten national security bulletins for some countries.

-Recruit and train

Government agencies and private sectors expressed; of Saudi companies and organizations, earlier, ready to recruit 150 of the “ethical hackers” to address potential electronic attacks from outside, targeting Government websites and companies and banks, in a move apparently paves the way to create an environment that embraces this category and have a career in public and private circles in the country.

And the newspaper quoted, informed sources in April 2016, those government agencies and other sectors will oversee the training of “ethical hackers” main lines, in accordance with the requirements of the labour market, especially since they are not professional and amateurs.

And conducted the King Abdul Aziz City for science and technology, last year, a competition for competitors to hack computers, the number of racers around 150 competitors have extensive experience in field of hacking, featuring those with expertise in networking fundamentals and its protocols, and learned the basics of information security, programming, basics of informatics systems.

Sourse: kolalwatn.net

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