Russia in Reprisal, FA boost up Cyber-security ahead of 2024

Last updated: January 24, 2024 Reading time: minutes
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England if beats Slovenia on October 5 so it will be qualified for the tournament which begins next June and that also will take the team to Russia, a bountiful source of worldwide cyber attacks.

However, The Football Association (FA) amid fears and suspects that determined hackers may look to obtain or steal confidential and key sensitive information about injuries, team selection, tactics and strategies of which could be a useful or worthy opponent to be used by gambling syndicates before matches.

According to the Guardian, (FA) will look to strengthen cyber-security training before head of the World Cup in Russia next year and as part of the plans, all advanced and latest cyber-security software is installed to FA computers and systems while staff and players have been advised not to use public Wi-Fi or over-share stuff on social media as their posting might reveal details of their locations or any other key information whilst in the country. All these prevention are made to protect against data breaches.

Simon Migliano, head of research at Top10VPN.com warned;