Be careful with information about the World Cup online

The frenetic football atmosphere in the next four weeks is at risk of seriously reducing employee performance, in part due to the "abetting" of the Internet. In addition, security experts also warn people to be alert when they click.

Photo: VNUNet Enjoying the night watching football, updating the latest news on teams, watching reviews, or listening to expert predictions will make it difficult for employees to focus and distract their work. Australia's Marshal security company estimates that the business is likely to waste about 12.5 million hours of work, with losses of up to $ 290 million.

In addition to FIFAworldcup.com, which offers free 2-minute clips of the match for free, the Internet community also finds many other video sites to enjoy beautiful ball-and-goal goals throughout the season.

" It's no surprise that the four weeks of the World Cup is the time when work efficiency drops to the lowest level of the year, " said Ed Macnair, Marshal's CEO. Therefore, he advised companies to implement a policy of limiting access to certain websites before noon break to avoid trouble with broadband connection and productivity.

But efficiency is only the first threat companies face. Some viruses and Trojans have been spread by spam to trick users into believing they are being introduced to one of the many attractive World Cup websites.

British security firm Sophos has discovered at least two variations trying to take advantage of this opportunity. The first virus, Haxdoor.IN, disguises the World Cup football schedule to open a backdoor for hackers to control computers. Although the content of the message is written in German, Sophos says cybercrime is easy to convert to other languages. Meanwhile, the Dropper.KG worm pretends to be an Excel spreadsheet file that helps track the results of matches.

Joel Camissar, managing director of US security company Websense, advises people to be alert to any World Cup-related attachments, even links to tournaments displayed through Google search results. .