“We can’t afford any attacks on the Olympic network, the timing, the
results postings, the television broadcasts, the communications by security
forces, Locog’s hand-held communications, the host data of accreditation
information and other data transmissions are all extra vulnerable because
they are temporary installations and they are not necessary well and
adequately firewalled because they are temporary,” he said.
But Ryan said he was comfortable with the robustness of the ticketing computer
programmes to weed out potential cyber manipulation to buy concentrated
numbers of tickets.
He believed the main ticket issue related to the volume of demand that may
initially stretch the system like it did at the Beijing Olympics.
Air Commodore Graham Wright, who is the deputy director of the Office of Cyber
Security and Information Assurance, told a Royal United Services Institute
meeting there were seven or eight key cyber risks attached to the Games that
have been identified since earlier this year when the government injected
£650 million over four years into the cyber protection of national assets.
Wright said assessment of the risk would be led by intelligence gathering.
While some information emanating from China suggested a daily cyber attack of
12 million, he cautioned that only a very small percentage of that number
may have been malicious attacks.
He said:”the Olympic Games core management system, border control from
the data accreditation system are all vulnerable to cyber hits and the Games
ticket website, are areas we see as cyber risk, they have been identified as
a risk.”
Wright said there was some frustration that the cyber focus was only now being
implemented as people had been able to register domain names to establish
e-crime and fraudulent ticket sites.
“If we had been thinking about these things a few years ago we could have
stopped the purchase of false domain names, but we are now trying to think
as far ahead as we can,” he said.
Article source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/8160733/London-2012-Olympics-ticket-sites-for-the-Games-vulnerable-to-cyber-attack.html
Category: Cyber Crime
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