Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, the fastest men in the world, storm over in the 100M line, a photo finish at the London 2012 Olympics.As they both eagerly look up, a political message appears on the time screen, covering disbelief throughout the world, and the times will never be known, a re-race won't be fair as both athletes are tired from their long -sought performance. What happens?
With the opening ceremony taking place in less than four days, when sport will bring together the world in London, there is very little space to worry about potential hacking threats, but like all other threats, measures have to be taken for them to not become reality.
Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer of eEye Digital Security and also a former hacker who was raided by the FBI at the age of 17, said the Olympics was a focal target.
With up to 12 million defended cyber attacks happening everyday in Beijing 2008, analysts are saying that that number could jump up to 14 million/day!
"I think this year even more so, given what's been happening recently in the hacktivist and related community," Maiffret said.
Atos The company in charge for maintaining IT (information technology) security in the 2012 Olympics, is responsible for some 11,500 computers and servers across Britain, and will monitor possible cyber threats second by second from its Olympic Technology Operations Centre in east London's Canary Wharf business district.
What ever happens, The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games'(LOCOG) will hope the $750 million they have spent on technology is enough to protect the Games.
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