Olympics 2012
Steps have been taken to prevent the London Olympic site being hit by sewage travelling at “40 miles an hour”, a Home Office minister has said.
Lord West was briefing peers on what is being done to protect critical infrastructure on the 2012 site.
He also revealed the games’ computer system, which controls ticketing, had already come under cyber attack.
He told a House of Lords sub-committee government and industrial computers in the UK were under “constant” attack.
The cyber-security minister said: “Almost every single government and industrial and other site is under attack, probably quite regularly. There are always people trying to get into these things.
“And so on the Olympic system, for example, we have found there have been some attacks on that and we are aware of those and we are dealing with them, but it’s something that we have to constantly monitor.”