Belal Amro

Work place: College of Information Technology, Hebron University, Hebron, Palestine

E-mail: bilala@hebron.edu

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Research Interests: Applied computer science, Computational Science and Engineering, Computer systems and computational processes, Theoretical Computer Science

Biography

Belal Amro is an assistant professor at Faculty of Information Technology in Hebron University - Palestine, where he has been working since 2003. From 2003 to 2004, he was a research assistant at Hebron University. From 2005 to 2007, he was an instructor in the Computer Science Department at Hebron University after having his MSc. degree in complexity and its interdisciplinary applications form Pavia- Italy. During 2008-2011 he received an ERASMUS PhD grant at Sabanci University-Turkey. From 2011-2012 he worked as research assistant at Sabanci University. In 2012, Mr Amro has received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering From Sabanci University- Istanbul, turkey. From 2012till now, Mr Amro has been working as an assistant professor at Faculty of Information Technology – Hebron University. From 2014 to 2017 Mr Amro has worked as chairman of Computer Science Department at Hebron University. Mr Amro has served as technical program committee member for different international conferences and journals, and reviewed more than 50 papers in the field of information technology including privacy and security. Currently, Mr Amro is conducting research in network security, wireless security, privacy preserving data mining techniques and has published more than 10 papers in international journals and conferences in the field of computer security and privacy

Author Articles
Cybercrime as a Matter of the Art in Palestine and its Effect on Individuals

By Belal Amro

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2018.05.03, Pub. Date: 8 Sep. 2018

According to Palestinian police records, cybercrimes have become common last few years in Palestine. The most commonly reported cybercrimes are mainly based on social networks to hack victims asking for some service. Many efforts are carried out by police and related agencies to handle these crimes and save the victims. In this paper, we will study cybercrimes in Palestine as a matter of the art and we will focus on parties involved in thwarting cybercrimes. These parties include: 1) ministry of higher education where they have a great role to afford knowledge about cybercrimes and ethical issues related to IT in school curricula. 2) Palestinian legislative council for adopting concrete cybercrime laws and regulations. and 3) Police department by broadening the role of cybercrime unit and gaining the trust of people about that unit. A survey designed and distributes and aimed to test the effect of cybercrime on individuals in Palestine, the survey results are reported. According to the findings and survey results, recommendations are provided with the aim of leveraging the ability to fight cybercrimes in Palestine in the near future.

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