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'Shady' porn site practices put visitors at risk
bbc ^
| 11 June 2010
Posted on 06/14/2010 1:30:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Visitors to porn sites are at serious risk of being exploited by cyber criminals, a study has suggested.
It found that many sites harboured malware or used "shady" practices to squeeze money out of their visitors.
By creating their own porn sites researchers found that many consumers were vulnerable to known bugs and loopholes.
Competition among porn sites makes the online adult industry ripe for abuse by hi-tech criminals.
"They have almost inadvertently created a whole ecosystem that's easy to abuse for cyber crime on a large scale,...."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: alt; blt; cheesemoose; fraud; hippocrite; joe6pack; justicedepartment; porn; sonofagun; sonofsam; vidal; vidocq
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To: JoeProBono
I guess these “researchers” are just now figuring this out. They’d have reported it sooner but they were busy trying to get their Atari working.
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posted on
06/14/2010 1:51:01 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
I’ve been hit twice in the last year by those stupid “remove adware” companies. Thankfully I back up my system every week, so I’ve only been down for about two hours each time. Once came from a link on FR and the other happened last week on the History Channel’s website history.com.
I could wring the necks of people who write those programs.
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posted on
06/14/2010 1:55:30 PM PDT
by
Dexter Morgan
(Everyone hides who they are.)
To: JoeProBono
What next, stories about Democrats being left-wing thugs?
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posted on
06/14/2010 1:56:02 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
I didn’t suffer crashes but persistent pop ups and weird stalls about six months back.
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posted on
06/14/2010 1:56:31 PM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
06/14/2010 2:00:26 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Dexter Morgan
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posted on
06/14/2010 2:03:50 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: se_ohio_young_conservative
asking me to buy free lesbian porn.??????
27
posted on
06/14/2010 2:14:27 PM PDT
by
uptoolate
("Unemployed? Depressed? Angry? Don't Beat Your Wife... Beat A Democrat..." VOTE)
To: uptoolate
Thats what it said. I kid you not.
Maybe it was a free trial offer or something. Heck, I don’t know.. LOL
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posted on
06/14/2010 2:16:06 PM PDT
by
se_ohio_young_conservative
("I would rather be hated and be a pain in their side than hated and act classy".. me)
To: PGR88
To: JoeProBono
wow. seems like it all happened only yesterday.
To: JoeProBono
Just think, a research grant likely paid for this.
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posted on
06/14/2010 3:00:28 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: aloishammer
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posted on
06/14/2010 3:13:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
So...they get computer cooties from computer sex?
To: TNdandelion
Computer Cooties
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posted on
06/14/2010 3:35:39 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I would say that PC users have this problem and not just surfing porn sites, and Mac users don’t worry about any code on any site, but I wouldn’t want to let the facts hijack a thread. LOL
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posted on
06/14/2010 4:16:34 PM PDT
by
RachelFaith
(2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Unless the GOP Senate ruins it all...)
To: RachelFaith
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posted on
06/14/2010 9:29:41 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
06/15/2010 12:15:38 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: JoeProBono
I keep clicking the "buttons" but nothing happens,
but I can't seem to stop...
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posted on
06/15/2010 12:21:42 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: Joe 6-pack
I’ve been trying to get someone to steal my identity for 10 years.
Nobody wants it.
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posted on
06/15/2010 12:28:36 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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