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LONDON (AP) --- Vital computer systems for London’s 2012 Olympic Games have come under repeated cyber-attacks — but only from hackers who were invited to join in thousands of hours of security tests.

 

A quarter of the London Olympic organizing committee’s overall budget of $3.1 billion has been spent on technology. Atos is expecting to handle 2 million pieces of key data throughout the event — 30 percent more than at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

 

For hackers, a gold medal attack would be to light up Olympic scoreboards with politically-motivated messages, a feat Adiba says would be almost impossible to achieve.

“It is very unlikely, as it all operates on a very secure network. It would be quite complicated to get into this network without being detected,” he said. “I can never be 100 percent, but it is close to 100 percent.”

 

 

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Many if not most hackers are amateurs, in it for the thrill. The same goes for the many security enthusiasts who fight back against them--which is one reason why Britain's Cyber Security Challenge event is seeking to enlist amateur talent for the ongoing struggle against hacking attacks.

 

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