Deputy Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams of Scotland Yard
has warned the public that international criminal networks are
preparing to target the London 2012 Olympics. According to
Williams, there is a lot of work to be done with internet fraud
threatening the Olympics as criminals prepare sophisticated
electronic attacks on transport infrastructures, sponsorship deals
and ticketing. The Metropolitan police have established a
specialist team to examine the threat of electronic and internet
attacks on the 2012 Olympic Games and they hope to acquire extra
funding from the Home Office to dedicate to online security to help
deal with threats similar to those made at the Beijing games last
year.
The police have said they are starting to see evidence of
e-crime threatening the London Olympics. Companies are being set up
under what are believed to be false names in anticipation of fraud
and other types of criminal activity, and in recent months
hospitals, police forces and major private companies in the UK have
been victims of cyber crime.
Williams warned yesterday that the criminals 'are determined,
sophisticated and flourishing' after announcing at the Association
of Chief Police Officers' annual conference that three million
online crimes take place in Britain ever year; about one every 10
seconds.
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