Yemen ranked high on hacking

SANA'A, May 27 (Saba) – An international report has put Yemen among
the world's top ten countries with highest rates of computer
hacking, ranking it 8th.

The report issued by the Business Software Alliance for 2008 on
world programming companies noted that hacking rates in Yemen
reached 89 percent.

Georgia was top and Bangladesh, Armenia, Zimbabwe Sri Lanka,
Azerbaijan, Moldova came higher than Yemen.

At the Arab level, Yemen was top and Libya second while a single
Muslim state came below Yemen.

Computer hacking in the last year grew by 41 percent for computer
programs, causing huge losses for programming companies estimated at
$ 53 billion.

Specialists and experts blame the increase in hacking on bad
legislation, the absence of world programming companies
representation in the country, unfit facilitations provided by
global programming companies in Yemen, all these besides the absence
of the people's awareness about the significance of licensing and
technical support for original copies of programs.

Because of ineffective legislation to protect intellectual property
and difficult economic situation with computer program users being
unable to buy original programs, hacking is prevailed in Yemen,
director general of the Yemeni Information Corporation Aws al-Eryani
said.

In 2007, Yemen lost almost $ 13 million due to computer hacking.

In addition, another reason for the surge in hacking in Yemen is
that web-hosts and overseers don't pay more attention to security
measures to protect their websites.

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