NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

One of the things that I think is going on here is that there is a bias (and for very good reason) towards Russia and other Eastern European countries due to the number of malicious activity encountered from the likes of malware and security attacks.

However, one thing that everyone should keep in mind is that Russians do not "shit where they eat". It is not very common for any Russian group to specifically target people within their own borders as that would bring upon a lot of attention.

It is 100% likely that their connections are being monitored and 100% likely that a dossier is being built on reporters and officials visiting the country, but it is 100% for sure that they're not being specifically targeted with malware. If they are, the person initiating the attack is going to find themselves in a lot of heat.

Engel's Wikipedia article is quite fluffy on that note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel

All in a day's work.

Well, its not like they haven't lied before. The whole Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks Dateline story showed what they think of actual journalism. In technology, they had that DEF CON fun from a while back.

Finally, thanks from Saint-Petersburg :)

It's disheartening that in 2014 the original article wasn't unanimously dismissed as the sensationalist click-bait that it is.