Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Watch Olympians “Go for the Gold” at Work – Safely

On July 27, for the first time ever, all of the summer Olympic game events will be streamed online by a network. In addition, well see thousands of other sites re-streaming or hosting the content. The internet will be awash with Olympics.

And while Im as excited as most, all this online Olympics access raises two major concerns:

  1. An increase in social engineered attacks - Cybercriminals will leverage the Olympics to launch social engineered attacks to gain access to an individual or organizations system. Social engineering gets them to the doorway by tempting users to click on a malicious link or file. But, for some companies, the door isn't going to be strong enough to stop the bad guys from coming in. There is going to be a huge influx of new sites being created and hosted just around... [via Security Bloggers Network]