Katrina is cyber hackers first choice-The Shaan News

New Delhi: Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif has been named as the most dangerous celebrity in the Indian cyber space. Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor take up number two and three positions respectively, according to an internet security company McAfee. McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal the riskiest celebrity sportsmen, actors and politicians across the web to reveal the ‘Most Dangerous Indian Celebrity.’ The study for ‘Most Dangerous Celebrity’ used the McAfee® SiteAdvisor® site ratings which indicate the sites that are risky to search for celebrity names on the web and calculate an overall risk percentage.
Searching for Kaif results in a 10.26 per cent chance of landing on a risky web site while Padukone in a 10 per cent chance of being led to a malicious website. Kareena Kapoor, the third Most Dangerous Celebrity and winner of six filmfare awards has a 9.8 per cent possibility of making users fall into a trap of malware laden websites. Commenting on the findings of the report, Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur, Senior Director, McAfee India, said, “In a celebrity crazy country such as India, cyber criminals find it very lucrative to use the names of popular figures as keywords to lure people to websites with malicious software. This year’s study found movie stars top the ‘most dangerous’ list, while sports stars and politicians are among the safest

Fans looking for results on search engines using strings such as name of celebrity combined with words like free downloads, hot pictures, screen savers, and videos are at risk of running themselves into websites with malicious software and online threats designed to steal personal information. At number four, Saif Ali Khan, has an 8.24 per cent chance of leading users to malicious sites followed by John Abraham with a risk percentile of 8.07 per cent. Priyanka Chopra occupies the sixth position with 8 per cent while Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is the seventh most dangerous celebrity.

Bipasha Basu, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan occupies eighth, ninth and tenth spot with 7.82 per cent, 7.65 per cent and 6 per cent, respectively. ”Searching for top celebrities continues to generate risky results,” said Paula Greve, director of Web security research at McAfee. ”Consumers should be particularly aware of malicious content hiding in tiny places like shortened URLs that can spread virally in social networking sites, or through e-mails and text messages from friends.” McAfee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, the world’s largest dedicated security technology company.