BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 8 Qatari shooters win gold INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2-10, 28 COMMENT 26, 27 and bronze REGION 10 BUSINESS 1-7, 13-16 China pledges $124bn 20,848.00 10,061.50 47.84 ARAB WORLD 10-12 CLASSIFIED 8-13 -22.00 -49.30 +0.01 INTERNATIONAL 13-25 SPORTS 1-8 for Silk Road projects in Baku -0.11% -0.49% +0.02% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10454 May 15, 2017 Sha ’baan 19, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir says In brief refugees QATAR | Offi cial Emir gets message from Swaziland king HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad victims of al-Thani has received a written message from King Mswati III of Swaziland, pertaining to bilateral relations and means of boosting and developing them. The message was received by HE the Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh Mohamed bin HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani addressing the opening session of the 17th Doha Forum yesterday. ‘terrorism’ Abdulrahman al-Thani, during his meeting yesterday with the Foreign iving asylum to refugees is not a must also be a clear distinction between Minister of Swaziland Mgwagwa cause of terrorism, but the po- terrorism and the legitimate right of Gamedze. Glitical and social backgrounds of peoples to struggle for freedom and in- terrorism are the breeding ground that dependence,” he said. triggers the displacement of millions, “We fi rmly believe that dialogue is QATAR | Visit HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad the optimum way to settle disputes Armenian president Cyberattacks: security al-Thani said yesterday, offi cial Qatar and resolve regional and international arrives in Doha News Agency reported. crises and confl icts. Today, our world Addressing the opening session of the is in dire need of concerted eff orts and President of the Republic of Armenia two-day 17th Doha Forum, being held serious work to deepen the concepts of Serzh Sargsyan arrived in Doha under the topic ‘Development, Stabil- dialogue and promote a culture of peace, yesterday evening on an off icial visit experts advise caution ity and Refugees Issues,’ the Emir noted tolerance, equality and rejection of vio- to the country. The president and that a refugee is the victim of the same lence and extremism. In this respect, we his accompanying delegation were environment that produces terrorism, seek through this forum to consolidate welcomed upon arrival at Hamad By Joseph Varghese and may himself be a victim of it. In the the principle of dialogue and support International Airport by HE the Minister Staff Reporter end refugees are helpless and desperate. the values of joint action and collective of Economy and Commerce Sheikh “Terrorism and extremism are a glo- building of the future,” he explained. Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al- bal phenomenon that is not linked to any Earlier in his address, HH the Emir Thani, Qatar’s ambassador to Armenia yber security experts in Qa- particular society, people or religion. pointed out that the topic of this year’s Ali bin Hamad al-Sulaiti, and Armenian tar and the region have advised It is posing a serious threat to security Doha Forum is crucial for millions of ambassador to Qatar Gegham Ccaution and not to access any and stability in the Middle East and the people and an urgent one for the inter- Gharibjanyan. e-mails or other information from un- world,” HH the Emir emphasised. national community in general. known sources, following the recent He believed that the “eradication of “Historically, millions of people have wave of cyberattacks across the world. this abhorrent phenomenon requires fl ed their countries to escape oppres- EUROPE | Politics Qatar National Information Secu- international co-operation and an ob- sion, persecution, natural disasters or Macron takes power rity Centre (Q-Cert) at the Ministry of ligatory strategy to confront the cir- in search for a better life, and they have as French president Transport and Communications has cumstances and causes of terrorism and found for themselves new homelands, issued a directive suggesting “All enti- the ideologies that justify and legitimise and great nations and civilisations have Emmanuel Macron became France’s ties and institutions in Qatar should be it in any way. The provisions of interna- emerged from these migrations.” youngest ever president yesterday, aware of a ransomware malware, which tional law and tackling the roots and real “We distinguish refugees’ issue from promising at his inauguration to restore has hit over 99 countries in the last two Dr Marc Dacier Ghareeb Saad causes of this blight must be taken into these problems because it is the result of the country’s lost confidence and days and is set to continue proliferat- account in fi ghting terrorism.” political action, whether wars or proc- relaunch the flagging European Union. ing.” Ghareeb Saad, senior security re- mised. Hadn’t the worm be stopped “The ideal environment for the activ- esses of forced uprooting and displace- Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, took the The Q-Cert statement said: “A searcher, Kaspersky Lab, told Gulf in its expansion by the activation of a ity of those who adopt radical ideologies ment,” the Emir stressed. reins of power from Socialist Francois number of proactive steps were adopt- Times that the Kaspersky Lab’s re- “kill switch” by a security researcher, to recruit young people is the widespread The forum’s opening session also in- Hollande at the Elysee Palace a week ed, and a team of specialists at the cen- searchers have confi rmed the detection it is reasonable to assume that some of anger because of the inability to act cluded remarks by Sudan’s President after his resounding victory over far- tre is on alert to contain or eradicate any of at least 45,000 infection attempts in machines in Qatar would have been against the injustice and humiliation, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Mali’s Presi- right leader Marine Le Pen in an election reported infections by the malware. Q- the last few days. compromised, just like in the rest of the and the ingrained feeling of inequity that dent Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Lebanon’s that was watched worldwide. In his first Cert provides nationwide cyber secu- “The ransomware infects victims by world,” explained Dr Dacier. is coupled with despair and deadlocked President Saad al-Hariri, Somalia’s speech as president Macron said his first rity response services and they can be exploiting a Microsoft Windows vul- “The worm appears to be contained vistas. I do not also exclude people who Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre, and priority would be “to give back to the reached by e-mail: incidents@qcert. nerability. Once inside the system, the for the time being but little eff ort would are violent by nature,” HH the Emir said. the UN Deputy Secretary-General Ami- French people the confidence that for org or Q-Cert hotline: 44933408.” attackers install a rootkit, which ena- be required from the attacker to launch “Factors such as psychological and na Mohamed. Pages 2, 3 too long has been flagging”. Page 19 Speaking to Gulf Times, Dr Marc Da- bles them to download the software to an updated version to contaminate the physical violence exercised by tyranny cier, research director - Cyber Security encrypt the data. A request for $600 in vulnerable machines that haven’t been or foreign occupation, social, econom- Qatar’s support at Qatar Computing Research Insti- Bitcoin is displayed along with the wal- infected yet,” the offi cial cautioned. ic and political distortions, as well as QATAR | Weather tute under Hamad Bin Khalifa Univer- let – and the ransom demand increases “Every company should have a se- blocked prospects for change are push- During the Doha Forum, it was Advisory on how sity said: “A new worm that breaks over time,” explained Saad. curity policy in place to enforce timely ing some people to join movements that announced that Qatar has entered to avoid sunstroke into Windows machines is spreading. “Kaspersky Lab experts are currently deployment of patches, to make sure put forward violence as a way out,” he an agreement with the Brookings Microsoft has published a patch - eve- trying to determine whether it is possi- that every machine facing the Internet maintained. Institution to establish an institute for US The Qatar Met department has ryone should update their machines ble to decrypt data locked in the attack – is protected by a fi rewall. All machines In this context, the Emir stressed the relations with the Islamic world. issued an advisory on how to avoid immediately. Services using shared with the aim of developing a decryption within the corporate network are also need to confront extremist ideologies The Qatar Fund for Development has sunstrokes and what to do if a person servers should not be exposed to the tool as soon as possible,” added Saad. to be protected by a desktop fi rewall and their advocates who exploit such an signed an agreement with the UN Offi ce suff ers from one due to the rise in Internet. Desktop fi rewalls should be “The latest ransomware attack, and every machine should run an up environment to push a small number of for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian temperature and humidity. The advice used by everyone, together with pro- namely wannacry, is a classical worm to date anti-virus system, and that in- young people into this path. Aff airs (OCHA) to provide a multi-year comes as hot daytime conditions fessional anti-virus products.” spreading by scanning IP addresses trusion detection systems are in place “We should neither forget the envi- generous fi nancial contribution of are expected to continue around The patch is available at https:// for machines that can be remotely at- inside and outside the perimeter of the ronment itself, nor the ‘state terrorism’ $40mn to support the offi ce.