Emma Watson is the most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace, 2012

Emma Watson has replaced Heidi Klum in the role of the most dangerous celebrities to search online in 2012 seconds McAfee. For the sixth consecutive year, McAfee has analyzed the results of research carried out on the web on the most famous popular culture in search of the most dangerous among Hollywood actors, politicians, athletes, musicians, comedians and public figures. McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities study found that women are more dangerous than men with Jessica Biel and Eva Mendes in second place to third. Latina women, then, have inflamed the ranking, firmly occupying five of the top ten. After Mendes, Selena Gomez, Shakira and Salma Hayek are respectively the fourth, seventh and ninth, while Sofia Vergara concludes the top 10. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel is the only male in the top 20 this year.


Often, criminals take advantage of the latest trends in fashion and the names of popular celebrities to lure people to sites that actually conceal malicious software and that are designed to steal passwords and personal information. Anyone looking for the latest videos or pictures could end up with a computer full of malware instead of pictures or other content. The results of this year's most dangerous were associated with the search for the name of the celebrity with "free downloads" and "nude pictures".
"Today's celebrities seem at hand, people expect to find on the internet the latest photos, videos, tweets, and last-minute information of their heroes. The material is available, easily accessible and interaction always higher, so more and more people do click on a link without thinking about the risks, "said Paula Greve, director of Web security research at McAfee. "In parallel to the increase in expectations of searchers, increased the level and sophistication of malware authors to create malvertising, threats that exploit the browser without the knowledge of users, or to disguise malicious URLs within URLs shortened. "