Title : Information crimes and how to combat them

Abstract

The rapid development that Algeria is witnessing in the field of new information and communication technologies and the growing use of applications connected to the Internet and new electronic and digital media to save files, images and others, calls for establishing a legal basis and providing the necessary devices and structures to combat transnational cyber crime. The study aims to show how it faces Mankind is new digital threats that are more complex, more deadly and damaging, causing damage to the computer network systems of large and sensitive institutions within countries that are still insecure, in addition to the presence of targeted and complex cyber attacks, where the complexity of these cyber attacks results from the fact that their impact may not be evident. Immediately, the majority of the victims of these attacks are ignorant of their initial exposure to piracy and do not discover this until after time.

And we reach a conclusion that, according to the latest statistics, only 40% of African countries today have a legal framework that punishes actions related to cyber crimes, and even if these laws exist that seek to develop the field of cyber security, they do not keep pace with the accelerating pace of renewed innovations in the field of technology And Algeria is one of the countries that fight cybercrime to preserve its electronic correspondence and information security.

Key words: electronic security - individuals ’thought - social networking sites - information crimes - penalties.