Fears of Olympic Cyber Attack Detailed After Snooping Revealed

First time accepted submitter Dr_Ish writes "The BBC is reporting that the opening ceremonies of last the Olympics last year were potentially subject to a cyber attack that could have cut all the lights and power. Of course, it did not happen. However, the interesting question is whether this is real, or whether this is a FUD story promoted by GCHQ to help shore up some credibility issues."

C'mon

[vikingpower]

Proof ? Any credible material, anywhere ? No ? Then walk on, people. Nothing to see here. News at eleven.

Let's summarize

[sjames]

GCHQ found a 'credible' threat that someone might turn the lights off during the opening ceremony and warned officials to have a contingency plan.

Officials posted a team of techs prepared to manually turn the lights back on if necessary. That's all they had time to do.

The threat never materialized and a bunch of techs were bored for a while.

In other words, it was exactly like that Mayan calendar thing. However 'credible' they found the threat, there was simply nothing to it and nothing was averted.

Every night, probably millions of parents spray 'monster spray' under their small child's bed. They must be more powerful than Ultraman.

Evaporating terrorists

[Kingston]

A few years ago the UK government leaked the story that there was a crack team of Islamic terrorists equipped with surface to air missiles ready to launch a "spectacular" attack. These extremists had based themselves in west London near Heathrow airport and were planning an imminent attack. In response the government sent 400 troops and tanks to the airport. Strangely no arrests were ever made and no missiles were ever recovered and the whole event was quickly forgotten. When did this happen ? about 5 weeks before the invasion of Iraq [bbc.co.uk].

Re:FUD

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry but I disagree in that this DOES matter. They pissed away $15 billion on the olympics (almost a billion just on security) and didn't even secure it properly?