Hackers Hit the Olympics, While Patch Tuesday and Meltdown / Spectre Keep IT Departments On Edge
This week offered a representative sampling of different corners of the cyber security world: The monthly Patch Tuesday, a brazen attack against the Olympics, new Meltdown and Spectre concerns, and a boost for Intel’s bug bounty program.
Oh, and the gargantuan Equifax data breach may have been even bigger than previously thought.
Winter Olympics hack confirmed
The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea are in full swing, featuring the world’s best ice skaters, skiers, hockey players and snowboarders, and also attracting, unfortunately, malicious hackers.
Attackers’ goals seem to be to disrupt the games in a variety of ways by interfering with and disabling IT systems.