Pyeongchang 2018: Staying Cyber Safe during the Olympics

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  1. ronjor

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    http://www.wired.co.uk/article/winter-olympics-cybersecurity
     
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    https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/02/internet_securi.html
     
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    "IT Firm Supporting Pyeongchang Olympics Reportedly Hacked Months Ago

    The IT company supporting the Winter Olympics apparently never had a chance. According to CyberScoop, it was hacked well before the Pyeongchang games ever began...

    According to CyberScoop, experts have determined that Olympic Destroyer—first identified by Cisco’s Talos unit—was likely deployed on February 9th by an actor who had previously infiltrated Atos, the IT provider hosting the Olympics’ cloud infrastructure.

    CyberScoop reports that evidence linking Destroyer to a previous cyberattack at Atos was unearthed via VirtusTotal, a popular site run by Google’s Alphabet that analyzes suspicious files using myriad antimalware scanners. A sample of Destroyer was found to contain Atos employee credentials, suggesting the actor who deployed it had also penetrated an Atos network months prior..."

    https://gizmodo.com/it-firm-supporting-pyeongchang-olympics-reportedly-hack-1823014680
     
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    Can't anyone just have a little fun now and then without reading into it so much?:eek:

    Did !00 thousands dollar professor run out of things to say?
     
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    https://www.csoonline.com/article/3...rom-the-2018-pyeongchang-winter-olympics.html
     
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