China on alert from Olympic hackers

With the Beijing Olympics soon to take the world’s center stage, China will be on high alert from portential computer hackers who target high profile events.

“Based on historical experience, many hackers seeking to make a name for themselves view the Olympic Games as a challenge and a target, and the Beijing Olympics may face attacks from individual hackers, groups, organizations, as well as other countries and those with all kinds of political motivations, therefore the network security situation is very grim,” China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) said in a report released earlier this month.

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