64: The Athens Shadow Games

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company would pin them to be top of the news cycle in Greece for weeks. Hackers got in the network. And what they were after took everyone by surprise. Sponsors Support for this episode comes from Okta. Learn more about how you can improve your security posture with the leader in identity-driven security at okta.com/darknet. This episode is supported by PlexTrac. PlexTrac is the purple teaming platform and is designed to streamline reporting, tracking and attestation so you can focus on getting the real cybersecurity work done. Whether you're creating pen test reports on the red team, or tracking and remediating on the blue team, PlexTrac can help. Support for this episode comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you remember the Olympics of 2004?
0:07.0	Citizens of the world welcomed to Athens.
0:11.0	It was in Athens, Greece, where the first Olympics ever took place.
0:16.0	Olympic Games welcomed back to Greece.
0:22.0	It was also just three years after 9-11.
0:28.0	There's always a fear that terrorists may strike at the Olympics.
0:33.0	In the 1972 Olympics, 11 people died in the Munich massacre.
0:38.0	In the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, a bomb went off in the Centennial Olympic Park,
0:44.0	killing one person and injuring over 100 others.
0:47.0	And in the South Korean Winter Olympics of 2018,
0:50.0	it was a pretty destructive hack that took down a lot of the Olympic village.
0:54.0	So how does a country ramp up to protect itself from terrorism at the Olympics?
1:00.0	And what does an attack even look like in today's modern world,
1:04.0	where hacks can be conducted silently without anyone knowing?
1:13.0	These are true stories from the dark side of the Internet.
1:17.0	I'm Jack Recyder.
1:22.0	This is Dark Net Diaries.
1:41.0	This episode is sponsored by Exonius.
1:44.0	Hey IT and security professionals, quick question.
1:47.0	Is gaining visibility into your environment an ongoing problem?
1:51.0	If so, consider cyber asset attack surface management,
1:55.0	informally known as chasm.
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