Cyber Attack Warning for London Olympics 2012
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has warned that the London 2012 Olympic Games "will not be immune" to cyber attacks.
However, it may depend on the type of cyber attack, as the CIO for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) said last year that cyber criminals would find it "very hard" to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Games' website.
Maude, speaking on a visit to Estonia, pointed out that the Beijing Olympics in 2008 experienced 12 million cybersecurity attacks, and said that hackers would be looking to "disrupt" this year's Games as well. He said: "We have rightly been preparing for sometime. A dedicated unit will help guard the London Olympics against cyber attack. "We are determined to have a safe and secure Games."
