A study on cybercrime awareness test in Saudi Arabia - Alnamas region

Nowadays, many technology-based applications and systems embedded with cybercrimes threats and risks. Our communities lack the basic skills to secure against a smart cybercrime threats. This study conducted to test and evaluate the current cybercrime risks and awareness in Alnamas area, a district in the Southern part of Saudi Arabia. The study targeted a set of users who are highly familiar in using modern technology applications and services. All subjects are students from Bisha University, College of Science and Arts, Al-Namas. The study used 16 different parameters; each parameter covers a different cybercrime issue. The outputs showed that the reasons behind a cybercrime can be list in order as: sexual, financial, political, cultural, and fame. However, a social communication network is the most widely gateway for a cybercrime to occur (rate 69.6%). Generally, an anti-virus program is the only tool used as an anti-cybercrime technique. The results showed that, among the most common cybercrime occurred, is a sexual crime (registered the highest risk rate 57%). The study noticed that there is a lack of awareness in a cybercrime knowledge, and a strong interest for receiving an anti-cybercrime training modules (rate 80.7%).