{"id":175152,"date":"2016-08-08T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175152"},"modified":"2016-08-08T08:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:27:40","slug":"hackers-target-rio-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175152-hackers-target-rio-olympics.html","title":{"rendered":"Hackers target Rio Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skycure.com\/blog\/hackers-seek-gold-rio-olympic-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Skycure has detected<\/strong><\/a> numerous security incidents targeted at tourists visiting the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect the 2016 Summer Games to exceed the 2014 Soccer World Cup in Brazil, which saw almost 90,000 attacks in a 30-day period,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>Network exploits are popular, with hackers setting up malicious Wi-Fi networks for tourists to connect to.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting to one of these networks could lead to personal information and passwords being stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers have also created malicious apps, designed to steal information and take control of a\u00a0mobile device.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious apps that masquerades as legitimate Olympic apps, such as the \u201cRio 2016\u201d app, are popular.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker has repackaged the app with additional code, which\u00a0will deliver excessive ads or take over a\u00a0device.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175146-samsung-galaxy-s7-has-quadrooter-vulnerability.html\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy S7 has Quadrooter vulnerability<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/174598-gumtree-scams-what-to-watch-out-for-and-how-to-avoid-them.html\">Gumtree scams: what to watch out for and how to avoid them<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/175136-nigerian-scammers-infect-themselves-with-own-malware.html\">Nigerian scammers infect themselves with own malware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skycure has detected numerous security incidents targeted at tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":174912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,199,38448],"class_list":["post-175152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-hackers","tag-rio-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175160,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175152\/revisions\/175160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}