A security expert is calling “fraudulent” a recent NBC News story about computer hacking at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, CNET reports, after discovering certain inconsistencies with NBC reporter Richard Engel’s story. Robert Graham from Errata Security said NBC’s warning that “if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics, it’ll immediately be hacked the moment you turn it on,” was fraudulent, as it suggested that athletes and their families will be almost certainly hacked when connecting their devices to local Wi-Fi networks when arriving in Sochi. Graham revealed that Engel was actually “getting hacked” in a café in Moscow, not Sochi, and his devices were hacked because they were accessing fraudulent Winter Olympics websites set up by
Security expert calls out NBC’s whiny report on Sochi Olympics hacking
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