News in brief [10-06-02]

Posted on 10 Jun 2002 at 17:56

World Cup Internet surge; or not; hackers to the rescue...

The World Cup has already proved its popularity, in terms of generating Web traffic. Newly crowned as the 'most successful sports event site ever', the official FIFA World Cup site has recorded a record number of page views (106 million) for 7 June, the day of England v Argentina. For the event as a whole, according to the BBC, its 464 million page views has surpassed the previous best of 350 million (in total) for the Salt Lake City Olympic Games website. How many visits were unsuccessful attempts to buy tickets is not known. The BBC's own Sport Online site registered 16 million page impressions on 6 June alone. 'We more than tripled our serving capacity for the event and thank goodness we did,' said BBC News Online editor Pete Clifton. [By Alun Williams]

Meanwhile the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles up to 96% of all the UK's data traffic, reports a six per cent drop in Internet traffic during the England v Argentina game.

Hackers come to the rescue, reports ZDNet. When the only personal to know the password to a cultural history databse in Norway died, the centre that manages the resource asked for hackers who could break in for them top send an email. The first email the centre received had the correct password and just to make things easy, an unencrypted copy of the database.

Author: Simon Aughton

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