Monday, April 15, 2013

Beware, Malware Scattered in Porn Site

Beware, Malware Scattered in Porn Site
Alert of Malware

CALIFORNIA - A study explained that explore a number of popular porn site turned out to pose a security risk. The reason is, advertisements that there is in these sites turned out to be install malicious files or malware without the user's knowledge.

Research conducted by Conrad Longmore find, there are two popular porn sites that pose a security risk online, ie is xhamster and pornhub. Currently according to Longmore, many cyber criminals are beginning to switch to a mobile device.

"We call the malicious ads 'malvertising', way of ads are bought and sold on the whole website is very complicated because the ads more easily repackaged and resold so it is difficult to know the origin of these ads and the criminals in behind him are trying hard to disguise what they are doing, "said Longmore.

Longmore also work out the details in the ads dangers of porn sites using Google's services diagnostic recommendations periodically analyze websites for dangerous contents. The resulting data shows that the xhamster site, has 1,067 malvertising during the past 90 days. Based on data from Alexa, xhamster has occupied the position of 46 most popular sites on the internet.

Whereas the pornhub sites known to have malicious ads on 12.7 percent of its website. "It appears suddenly has been occurred increase in malware on the popular site, especially in a few this weeks," said Longmore

Longmore spoken, many users are afraid to report being become victims malvertising. "Part of the problem this is because porn is a taboo subject. But the fact is, there are a lot of them are popular sites that including the popular 100 sites globally. So this is a very big issue. Site operator must report to quickly mechanism of their sites with marking ads bad and ad networks should also be responsible, "he explained.

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