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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