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Paris braces for a barrage of cyberattacks

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Technology, News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Summer Olympics, which kick off in Paris next month, are set to bring more than 10,000 athletes and an estimated 15 million spectators to the French capital. Officials hope to keep sports at center stage, but behind the scenes, they’re preparing to fend off cyberthreats in high volume. In recent years, several Olympic host cities have faced and managed cyberattacks, but as Antoaneta Roussi, cybersecurity reporter at Politico, tells Marketplace’s Lily Jamali, this year could be worse.

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Olympic Dreams. Del. I'm Lily Dramale. The Summer Olympics kicking off in Paris next month are set to bring 10,000 athletes and 15 million spectators to the French capital.

1:09.0

Officials hope to keep sports on center stage, but behind the scenes they've been fending off threats

1:14.2

including those of cyber attacks about which French President Emmanuel Macron has

1:19.6

been pretty blunt.

1:24.8

In April he said he had no doubt Russia would target the games.

1:29.0

Its athletes are barred from competing under the nation's flag after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

1:34.4

In recent years, several host cities have faced and mostly managed Olympic cyber attacks, but

1:39.9

Politicos Antonetta Rosie says this year might be different.

1:44.3

So during the Tokyo Olympics, which was held during COVID and as we all remember the world was constrained they saw something like 450 million attacks

1:58.0

and that was considered small so 450 million is small yeah so you can only imagine the magnitude

2:06.7

the scale of the expected attacks in Paris.

2:11.5

So the most basic sort of cyber attack is a DDOS attack,

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which stands for a distributed denial of service.

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