Stressing the need for technical solutions to "the
economy"
Economists, academics, experts agreed that the kingdom is under a clear electronic threat to the national economy, pointing to
the damage to a number of economic sectors, specially the service
sectors, lately, with a big harm, due to the arrival of the upgraded version of
the virus, "Shimon 2" to information
technology systems in those sectors.
"The
economy" in its issue for February shed light on this war faced by the Kingdom
and pointed to a report by the National Center for cybersecurity at the
Interior Ministry on January 23, 2017, that stated that the virus "Shimon
2" hit 11 government and private entities, affecting more 1800
"surfer" server, and more than 9000 computer, pointing that the implementation
steps, passed through several stages, the first being to get the powers of the
administrator via social engineering and executive messages, and remote access
to the network via VPN or RDP or VNC or other and
then surveyed the internal network to identify the systems and network devices
of the facility, then the copy malicious files on a device in the network,
including the "Shimon" file and then deployed to other devices within
the network, and later operated the software malware remotely using PSexec or
Group Policy or
SCCM or other, and finally varied damage caused by the attack between delete
the entire data from the device, and data encryption using RC4 or destruction
of operating systems and install programs.
Economists
and academic experts stressed that the mail attack that some sectors recently
had by the upgraded version of Shimon 2 virus reminds us of the attack in 2012,
which has affected the technical infrastructure of Saudi Aramco at the time, noting
that the initial analysis of the attack leads to consider it as an organized coordinated attack for some time, indicating
that the attack began some time ago, and more clearly, launched in October last
year, and stressed the need to follow the experience of Aramco in facing any
electronic hacking.
"The
economy " mentioned the "e-commerce"
and said that the retail sector in the Kingdom is ready to enter a new phase of
its kind, not on the level of economic sectors in the Kingdom, but also in the
Middle East. The
"retail" is looking to break into the world of the digital economy,
in terms of development, innovation marketing solutions, according to the
Vision 2030 and the stage is titled "e-commerce", keeping up to the
global challenges, and to meet the needs of customers both locally and
regionally, through electronic stores based on infrastructure
eligible to increase the amount of investments, enhancing the growing opportunities,
encouraged by the easily paying online, the increasing growth in the number of
customers who buy products and services on the Internet, mostly through their
smartphones.
"The
economy" discussed the issue of medical tourism and described it as a
drifter investment in the Kingdom in terms of international figures indicating that
50 million passengers around the world are receiving treatment outside their
country annually, and suggests that these treatment costs between 50 and 60
billion dollars, according to estimates by the Economic Cooperation
Organization and development OECD. Experts
predict a growth in medical tourism at a rate of 20% per annum, which according
to experts is a major player in the field of sustainable development in many
countries of the world.
In
spite of the importance of medical tourism, as a source of national income, but
this vital investment have not been exploited yet in the Kingdom as intended,
to the weakness of marketing programs, and low promotion operations locally,
regionally and globally, which led many Saudis abroad in search of treatment, instead
of treatment in their home country, and led to a scarcity of private investment
in the sector, despite the availability of capabilities and infrastructure that
qualify Kingdom to become the most important destination for medical tourism in
the Middle East.
In
the blog of A Man and his time "the economy" mentioned
the biography of the late Eng. Harb bin
Saleh Al Zuhair since receiving a primary school in Basra, Iraq passing Beirut
and Choueifat down to the American Hampshire University in the city of Portsot
where he majored in civil engineering, and graduated with excellence and worked
in the Ministry of Communications in the year 1961
to 1968, and began a supervisor engineer on major roads working farm roads,
then a general director of the planning units related to the Ministry of planning,
as part of the first Five year plan for the development of the country 'until
he resigned in 1968, to start a self employment, and set up a company
"with modern
industrial specialties and desalination of water and electricity ", which has
branched to other companies in industry, trade and construction.
