Security News > 2011 > January > London 2012 Olympics faces increased cyber attack threat

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/19/london-2012-olympics-cyber-attack By Owen Gibson sports news correspondent guardian.co.uk 19 January 2011 London Olympics organisers today warned of the increased danger of cyber attacks that could fatally undermine the technical network that supports everything from recording world records to relaying results to commentators. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) said it was "inevitable" that its systems would have to repel malicious attempts by hackers to bring them down. Unveiling a new lab that will run simulations of millions of scenarios at venues with 200,000 hours of testing ahead of 2012, Locog chief information officer Gerry Pennell said the threat had increased since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. "It's clear that cyber security is rising up the agenda in this country and others. We're taking it very seriously. It consumes a significant proportion of my time," he said. Patrick Adiba, the chief executive of Locog's IT partner Atos Origin Iberia, said that during the Beijing Olympics there were 14m "events" a day, about 400 of which were "relevant events that could have been an issue that may have impacted on the Games". All of them were blocked, he said. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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