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July 25, 2012 08:30 pm GMT

Olympic Attendees: Heres How You Stay Safe From Hackers




The networks broadcasting and live streaming the 2012 Olympic Games are reportedly well-prepared to deflect cyberattacks and hackers, but what about the average Olympic attendee who is connected to public WiFi?

This year's Olympics is poised to be the most social and mobile in history and, yes, that means plenty of streaming content, but it also means thousands of visitors equipped with smartphones, laptops and tablet computers.

With such a high concentration of mobile technology in one spot, the speed of 3G and 4G connections may suffer, leading mobile device users to turn to public WiFi at a restaurant, coffee shop or to one of the 500,000 WiFi hotspots built in preparation for the…
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