If you ’re a sports fan of Amy Schumer or Justin Bieber , Intel wants you to be extra careful online . The software society ’s McAfee security measures weapon system on Wednesday released its one-year " most dangerous " fame list , which ranks actors , comedians , and musicians based on the likelihood that their search answer will permeate your gimmick with malware or viruses . Yes , this is a matter , and theTrainwreckstar is this year ’s success .
" grievous " in this context really means the intersection point of super popular commodity and solid cybercriminal opportunity . As you ’ll see below , some of the findings make horse sense ( Daniel Tosh , Miley Cyrus ) and others … perchance not as much ( Carson Daly ):
The top 10 should reassert what you likely already know : celebrities make great lures for cybercriminals to catch fan on sketchy pages , where passwords and other piece of personal info can be theirs for the pickings . " With this craving for real - clock time entropy , many hunt and tick without considering potential security risk , " say Gary Davis , an exec at Intel Security , which release the report usingMcAfee WebAdvisorratings . " Cybercriminals know this and take reward of this conduct by attempting to lead them to insecure site loaded with malware . "
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Intel also found this year that Schumer ’s peer – admit Kevin Hart ( No . 25 ) , Mindy Kaling ( 30 ) , Kristen Wig ( 52 ) , Chelsea Handler ( 54 ) , and Ellen DeGeneres ( 57 ) – grab a wide range of spots on the lean , and that Bieber ’s be given to herd together closer to the top : Drake ( No . 13 ) , Katy Perry ( 14 ) , Justin Timberlake ( 17 ) , Jennifer Lopez ( 18 ) , Lady Gaga ( 19 ) , Nicki Minaj ( 20 ) , Iggy Azalea ( 27 ) , Beyoncé ( 28 ) , and Usher ( 29 ) .
Intel noted that Schumer ’s latest accomplishment emphasize the trend of teem more video and movie depicted object online . The drift is convenient for consumer , but it ’s also skillful for criminals – it essentially gives vane - savvy vultures more targets and gateways . Doing a oecumenical hunting for anybody in the top 10 , for example , total with an 11 - 16 % opportunity of malware exposure . Digging for torrents touch to those celebs can double over or three-fold that chance .
Your " Amy Schumer " hunting do n’t ask to lead toward end of the world and destruction : browse with malware protection , get word how to place phishing scams , give-up the ghost to original source for content ( e.g. , Comedy Central for an honest-to-goodness instalment ofInside Amy Schumer ) , and not being an idiot when look for torrents can help vastly . Google away , celeb obsessive .
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