Author: Martin
Published: Dec 29th, 2007
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Why Hackers take advantage of global events

Hundreds of websites have been prepared or compromised to take advantage of the Benazir Bhutto Assassination in Pakistan. Users searching for news on the assassination using search engines like Google or Yahoo might land on a website that has been specially prepared to download Javascript code that in turn downloads additional malicious software to the host PC.

Tags: anitvirus, bhutto, Security, trojan, websites, worms
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Ghacks is a technology blog that was founded in 2005 by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular technology sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers.

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Joe Anderson
Martin Brinkmann (Senior Editor)
Cheryl Correa
Orrett Morgan
Daniel Pataki
David Pierce
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