June 10, 2006

Avaya to Tackle DoS Attack against World Cup Football Network

FIFA’s networking partner announced that it was expecting hackers to launch huge DoS attacks against the World Cup football network. Avaya has expected that malicious computers would be reprising the to date unsuccessful attacks against the networks servicing the 2002 world Cup, 2003 Women’s World Cup and the warm up tournament for Germany 2006, the Confederations Cup.

Avaya manager has not revealed as to which vendors were involved in security to network this tournament which includes provision of intrusion prevention and virus scanning software.

Via silicon

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