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Dangerous searches 'Oscars 2010 winners'

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Monday, March 8, 2010
14 years ago2,105 views

Covered at

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/03/08/hackers-exploit-oscar-film-awards-spread-scareware/

This was expected...

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

From the post:

"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.
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