Cameron Diaz has gone from being just another one of Charlies Angels to the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, according to research by McAfee.In the latest version of its “Dangerous Celebrities” study, McAfee found that Diaz had replaced fellow actress Jessica Biel as the louis vuitton outlet who, when entered into search engines, was most likely to generate results that were malicious sites.
Attackers typically use popular celebrities as bait to lead victims to sites hosting malware. Following Diaz in the rankings is movie star Julia Roberts. Next is Biel, followed by supermodel Gisele Bndchen and actor Brad Pitt.This year, the search results for celebrities are safer than theyve been in previous years, but there are still dangers when searching online, said Dave Marcus, security researcher for McAfee Labs, in a marc jacobs handbags, adding that cyber-criminals have gotten sneakier.
Now theyre hiding malicious content in tiny places like shortened URLs that can spread virally in social networking sites and Twitter, instead of on Websites and downloads, he said.Searching for Diaz yields a 10 percent chance of landing on a malicious site. In particular, when louis vuitton replica and screensavers was searched, 19 percent of the sites were identified as having malicious downloads. Users searching under Julia Roberts and downloads had a 20 percent chance of landing on a site with a malicious download, the company found.