Let the games begin!

london_2012As I flew back into London the other evening, from the window of the ‘plane, to my surprise and delight, I could see the outline of Olympic stadium. Preparations seem to be well in hand and on track, which is good news. ‘The Guardian’ also points out that preparations are also underway in the virtual world as criminal networks and cyber-criminals look to see how they can exploit the London games. The Olympics in Beijing clearly showed just how a global event, like the Olympics, can be alluring and lucrative to the cyber-criminal fraternity.

The UK law enforcement agencies are also turning their attention to this, with the Metropolitan police already having established a specialist team to examine the threat of electronic and internet attacks on the 2012 Olympic games. It would also appear that they have detected some ‘precursor’ activity, with companies being set up in what they believe are false names in anticipation of fraud and other types of criminal activity during the run-up to the Olympics.

July 13, 2009 | Filed Under Events, Security 

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