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  • Intrusion detection key to World Cup success

    After a failed attempt to illegally access the FIFA World Cup IT network at the Korea and Japan games four years ago, more emphasis has been placed on intrusion detection processes.

  • World Cup football loves to hate high-tech

    Fourteen minutes into Argentina's first World Cup match on June 10, a header bounced off the goalpost and into the Ivory Coast keeper's hands -- and maybe all the way across the goal line.

  • Virus preys on World Cup ticket rush

    A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool people into executing its payload by pretending to be an e-mail from soccer world governing body FIFA offering free tickets to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

  • FIFA in race to finish World Cup IT

    World football governing body FIFA will have less than a month to install the entire IT network into all the stadiums for the World Cup tournament this European summer due to the late finish of the German football season.

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  • 'Goalfest' for IT at the World Cup

    No other sporting event captures the world's imagination like the FIFA World Cup. How will local companies be contributing during this month-long extravaganza, both online and offline?

  • World Cup football loves to hate high-tech

    Fourteen minutes into Argentina's first World Cup match on June 10, a header bounced off the goalpost and into the Ivory Coast keeper's hands -- and maybe all the way across the goal line.

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