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Aggressive Hackers Are Targeting Rio's Olympics (fastcompany.com)
The Daily Dot is warning about fake wi-fi hubs around Rio, but also networks which decrypt SSL traffic. And Slashdot reader tedlistens writes:
Steven Melendez at Fast Company reports on the cybercrime threat in Rio, and details a number of specific threats, from ATMs to promotional USB sticks to DDoS attacks [on the networks used by Olympic officials]... "Last week, a reporter for a North Carolina newspaper reported that his card was hacked immediately after using it at the gift shop at the IOC press center. And on Friday, two McClatchy reporters in Rio said their cards had been hacked and cloned soon after arrival."
Even home viewers will be targeted with "fraudulent emails and social media posts" with links to video clips, games, and apps with malware, as well as counterfeit ticket offers -- but the threats are worse if you're actually in Rio. "In an analysis last month of over 4,500 unique wireless access points around Rio, Kaspersky found that about a quarter of them are vulnerable or insecure, protected with an obsolete encryption algorithm or with no encryption at all."
Even home viewers will be targeted with "fraudulent emails and social media posts" with links to video clips, games, and apps with malware, as well as counterfeit ticket offers -- but the threats are worse if you're actually in Rio. "In an analysis last month of over 4,500 unique wireless access points around Rio, Kaspersky found that about a quarter of them are vulnerable or insecure, protected with an obsolete encryption algorithm or with no encryption at all."
But it's a fucking shambles over there at the moment. Tech failures, controlled explosion of a bomb(least it was caught I guess), a media tent got a bullet through it, security failing miserably allowing people without credentials to get in, Swedish rowing coaches got mugged apparantly, a media cameraman had his camera stolen, unsafe bike track and a few foreigners were apparantly kidnapped a day ago. Pretty poor turnout for a lot of events as well.
Let's hope there's no more issues.
Someone sure sounds bitter, upset because you dedicated your life to sports, failed and realized you have nothing of value to contribute society?
"the international hub for the Olympics, was found to host many networks that are capable of decrypting Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic — undoing a protocol put in place to keep data protected." link
Only if the client desktop computer is configured to accept forged certs as used in the Cisco SSL Inspection device.