If you are a fan of the movie stars Cameron Diaz, be careful when surfing the Internet. His name was added to a list of keywords, the most dangerous because they often used to lure and smuggle malicious software aka malware (malicious software) are.
McAfee anti-virus companies to Cameron Diaz in the top position in the list of the most dangerous celebrities in an online search service. Julia Roberts is the next celebrity. Jessica Biel, who last year occupied the first place slipped to third place.
Monitoring results showed one of the 10 sites displaying search results that the star "Knight and Day" malware that may contain useful data to steal. McAfee published a report on Thursday (19/08/2010).
The developers of malware often exploit celebrity names as bait to trap his victim because of the popularity of the name. You can expect many opportunities to unsuspecting Internet users to click on the Web to cheat and download the contents seem harmless.
"And what has downloadable program designed to provide jobs and other personal information to steal for profit," said Dave Marcus, security research director at McAfee Labs.
The technique is effective because it uses social engineering by the majority of Internet users. Very often a villain in the virtual world would use Twitter, or follow the Google Trends, a similar case design. The Cyber-criminals increasingly changed fall line based news has been warmly debated.
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen was the fourth in the list, followed by Brad Pitt, one of the two men who were in the top 10 positions included. Brad Pitt on the basis of history one of the most dangerous celebrities to search there always is in the list. Ex-Model Adriana Lima Victoria's Secret is in sixth place, followed by Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Nicole Kidman, who was at the seventh position. Tom Cruise make the eighth and ninth position, and Heidi Klum Penelope Cruz. Anna Paquin, the star of the hit television series "True Blood" ranks in the locked position 10 to close.
McAfee anti-virus companies to Cameron Diaz in the top position in the list of the most dangerous celebrities in an online search service. Julia Roberts is the next celebrity. Jessica Biel, who last year occupied the first place slipped to third place.
Monitoring results showed one of the 10 sites displaying search results that the star "Knight and Day" malware that may contain useful data to steal. McAfee published a report on Thursday (19/08/2010).
The developers of malware often exploit celebrity names as bait to trap his victim because of the popularity of the name. You can expect many opportunities to unsuspecting Internet users to click on the Web to cheat and download the contents seem harmless.
"And what has downloadable program designed to provide jobs and other personal information to steal for profit," said Dave Marcus, security research director at McAfee Labs.
The technique is effective because it uses social engineering by the majority of Internet users. Very often a villain in the virtual world would use Twitter, or follow the Google Trends, a similar case design. The Cyber-criminals increasingly changed fall line based news has been warmly debated.
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen was the fourth in the list, followed by Brad Pitt, one of the two men who were in the top 10 positions included. Brad Pitt on the basis of history one of the most dangerous celebrities to search there always is in the list. Ex-Model Adriana Lima Victoria's Secret is in sixth place, followed by Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Nicole Kidman, who was at the seventh position. Tom Cruise make the eighth and ninth position, and Heidi Klum Penelope Cruz. Anna Paquin, the star of the hit television series "True Blood" ranks in the locked position 10 to close.
1 comments:
This is quite an interesting story. I'll definitely keep that mine.
Post a Comment