• After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart we announce that we will no longer be publishing new content on iMore and the iMore forums will be closing as of November 1st, 2024.

How a fake 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics hacking story is causing real damage to NBC News' reputation

iMore.com

Administrator
Nov 15, 2013
67,080
52
0
Visit site


NBC News would have you believe that the life expectancy of a computer ? MacBook Air ? or smartphone ? Android ? at the Winter Olympic Games is roughly zero, at least when it comes to it being hacked and your financial and other personal information stolen. Anyone with a base level of technical knowledge at all would recognize it as complete and utter bull**** the minute they saw it. Sadly, as many of us who got contacted by concerned family members know, it's far too easy to scare everyone else. Robert Graham of Errata Security calls the report "100% fraudulent":

Full story from the iMore Blog...
 

Latest posts

Trending Posts

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
262,087
Messages
1,774,043
Members
441,393
Latest member
sunnyville01