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How the London Olympics dealt with six major cyber attacks

06 March 2013 • 4 min read

Six major attacks out of 165 million 'security events' identified

The London Olympics faced six major cyber attacks during the Games out of some 165 million individual security-related "events" identified by the IT team put together by Gary Pennell, the CIO of th...

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