http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&storyID=455399§ion=news 10 February, 2004 ATHENS (Reuters) - Security officials for the Athens Olympics are working on plans to counter a possible hacker attack on key infrastructure during the Games in August, a Greek newspaper has reported. The Nea daily said on Tuesday electronic security experts became concerned by a message in a U.S. computer magazine asking hackers if they had found a way to interfere during the Athens Olympics. "Theoretically, there are opportunities for them to act," the newspaper quoted a police source as saying. "We need to be alert and cooperate with other countries and with the specialist electronic crime unit". The newspaper added that electronic scoreboards, traffic lights, utilities and air traffic networks were high on the list of possible targets that security experts would try to make hacker-proof before the Games. Greece is spending a record 650 million euros (444 million pounds) on security for the August 13-29 Olympics, the first summer Games since the September 11, 2001 attacks and the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo@private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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