thursday 1 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 From CNN: Quote: If you like to search for "music lyrics" or "free" things, you are engaging in risky cyber behavior. And "free music downloads" puts 20 percent of Web surfers in harm's way of malicious software, known as "malware." A new research report by U.S.-based antivirus software company McAfee has identified the most dangerous Internet search words that places users on pages with a higher likelihood of malware. The study examined 2,600 popular keywords on five major search engines -- Google, Yahoo, Live, AOL and Ask -- and analyzed 413,000 Web pages. "Just in the past year, we've seen a pretty dramatic shift in what we call malware," David DeWalt, president and CEO of McAfee, told Richard Quest for CNN's Quest Means Business. Watch Quest interview with McAfee boss » "It went from a hacker in a basement, to organized cybercrime to now, literally, terrorism and other forms of organized geopolitical attacks," he said. Categories that had the highest risk of run-ins with malware: screensavers, free games, work from home, Olympics, videos, celebrities, music and news. Riskiest terms: word unscrambler, lyrics, myspace, free music downloads, phelps, game cheats, printable fill-in puzzles, free ringtones and solitaire. The study shows how cyber criminals are increasing in sophistication. "We can have massive outages with a hacker in the basement -- we saw that recently with the 'Twitter worm,' a 17-year-old in his basement basically perpetrated tens of millions of (computer) outages, or we can see an organized attack bringing down infrastructure," DeWalt said. Antivirus software companies lag behind latest developments by cyber criminals. "We've been way behind, that's true for the entire world, the global infrastructure of the Internet has grown dramatically -- 50 percent of the world's PCs are unprotected," he said. Despite the increased risk, DeWalt doesn't believe there will be a "cyber Armageddon" causing widespread destruction of computers and Internet infrastructure. "Last week, you saw President Obama in the United States talk about a major cyber-security initiative sponsored by the government, other governments are sponsoring this as well," DeWalt said. "I think we're learning this can happen, and if we get ahead of it, we can prevent it." WTF? I'm safe as houses then Link to post Share on other sites
kkk 7 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Damn, I am always searching "word unscrambler"! (????) Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 printable fill-in puzzles!?!? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 One has to question what sort of kicks these cretins get out of their predations. Ferexample, what did the "...17-year-old in his basement [who] basically perpetrated tens of millions of (computer) outages..." get for his efforts? Apart from bragging rights, that is, I can see no benefit to him. Or am I missing something obvious, here? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 You missed the colon at the end of wakaranai Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 this is pretty dangerous for guys Danger Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 did you google that? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 What are some people doing with their time?! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Yeah. They should be on the forums Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 We are, thursday. Sad that there aren't more, but some people are technophobes. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 How the hell is 'porn' not a dangerous term? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Who said it wasn't? Certainly not me. No idea which post you are referring to, Rob. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 The article didn't say it WAS so I was led to assume that it wasn't a dangerous term, which surprised me. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 pron is a good search word Link to post Share on other sites
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