Expect to Be Hacked in Sochi? Not Exactly

Earlier this week, NBC ran a report that suggested visitors to the Sochi Olympics were in danger of being hacked the second they stepped off the plane in Russia. New details about the piece, however, tell a different story.

Expect to Be Hacked in Sochi? Not Exactly In the original piece (below), Richard Engel, NBC's chief foreign correspondent, teamed with Kyle Wilhoit, a threat researcher with Trend Micro, to test how quickly devices could be compromised while in Russia. And indeed, the MacBook Air, Lenovo PC, and a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone were hacked almost immediately.
The segment suggested that there was something unique about Russia; that your devices were more at risk in the country than in the U.S. or elsewhere. But in a behind-the-scenes video posted online by NBC, we find th...

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