Mideast increasingly at risk from cyber-crime / The Daily Star, 31 May 2005

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=15496
Nicholas Noe
"Although statistics on cyber crime in the Middle East are generally hard to come by, according to one recent survey by Symantec, a leading Internet security provider, among countries with a relatively low number of Internet users, five countries from the Middle East region have been classified as among the top 10 countries vulnerable to hackers' attacks."