Qatar issues personal data privacy protection law
3 Nov 2016
Qatar becomes the first GCC state to issue a general data protection law, setting security, breach and transfer rules.
Insights for the Middle East and Africa.
Qatar becomes the first GCC state to issue a general data protection law, setting security, breach and transfer rules.
The Bank of Israel issues Directive 361, requiring banks to appoint a cyber defence manager and adopt a board-approved strategy.
Destructive Shamoon malware erased data on around 30,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s largest oil producers.
Researchers revealed Flame, a large and complex espionage toolkit found mainly on computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Ghana enacts the Data Protection Act 2012 (Act 843), establishing a Data Protection Commission.
A breach at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar produced fraudulent certificates, including for Google, reportedly used to spy on Iranian users.
Researchers uncovered Stuxnet, a highly sophisticated worm built to sabotage Siemens industrial control systems, with most infections in Iran.