Virus?
DoS attack?
Hackers?
The biggest threat to your network – everywhere but America – could be the World Cup, which starts this week.
Footie fans around the world will be using their work computers (if they even go to work) to check scores and watch the games live from Germany. The Register reports that the BBC is threatening to ankle the Mother Country as it will offer a live feed, which Packeteer thinks will be very, very bad:
“These warnings rarely materalise into real problems. Though, in fairness, Packeteer does have a point when it says streaming video of World Cup matches has never been widely available before. It reckons widespread use of the technology could cause network congestion and slow down the performance of business critical applications.”
More here.
Via The Register
