[ISN] Olympics organisers worry about hackers

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    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.
    
    
    
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