Last night saw Kathryn Bigelow’s hard-hitting film “The Hurt Locker”, about a bomb disposal team in Iraq, scoop the major gongs at the Academy Awards. It shouldn’t probably be any surprise to hear that movie buffs around the world used the internet to keep track of who won which Oscars, and – sadly -that hackers would try and exploit the event.
Internet users searching for phrases like
Oscars 2010 winners
may be putting the security of their computers at risk today, as some of the results returned by search engines can point to malicious webpages.
By using SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques, hackers have created webpages that are stuffed with content which appears to be related to the 2010 Oscars, but are really designed to infect your computer.
As you can see, information about the Oscars ceremony and award winners has been one of the hottest search topics overnight.
Clicking on the dangerous links takes you to a page which pretends…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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