Information and communication technology has become an essential engine for the movement in modern societies, in fact it turns out to be a key factor for economic growth, human progress and social development. As the variety of telecommunication networks have facilitated access to all information and data from different forms and locations, herein lies the risk of what these networks and information can come with. to systems, and sabotage or manipulation of systems and data. Irrespective of the motives of hackers and criminals, all these activities pose an alarming threat to institutions and individuals, and can cause a negative impact on the economy. Moreover, cybercrimes have now become more organized to cause defects not only to government entities, the private sector and individuals, but their impact extends to reach nations. Criminals are now able to exploit cyber space to perform their criminal activities and The incremental dependence on information in a complement manner to ordinary crime. To and communication highlight, they have now become technologies make us able to organize themselves, vulnerable to the risks, exchange information or threats and attacks of form criminal gangs, utilize cyber space. These risks infrastructure and cyber space emerge from technical to practice different crimes such weaknesses of operating as money laundering, extortion, systems and software, drug dealing,arms smuggling, lack of legislation corruption,human trafficking, outlawing electronic child abuse, and financial crimes, and ineffective manipulation. information sharing between the government, the private sector There are criminals who follow organized and individuals. Such inefficiency has groups or governments of states, endangering enabled amateur and computer specialists national security to new challenges related to to practice illegal activities, thereby information technology, and alarming a rise threatening the basic services provided to of an informational war that can have serious individuals, government entities, companies effects on the economy of the state, its security and institutions. and stability. Activities such as electronic intelligence, espionage and gathering of Attacks and cybercrimes spread widely and sensitive information, or spread rumors and in various forms such as malware, DDOS misinformation aimed at undermining security attacks,piracy of personal data and those may be practiced. This extends to take on a protected by intellectual property rights, terrorist dimension if targeting systems of spam e-mails sent to carry out extortion, vital infrastructure and public utilities such fraud, identity theft, unauthorized access as energy, electricity, water, transportation, communication systems, financial sector, and medical services. 13

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