{"id":465,"date":"2006-06-02T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=465"},"modified":"2006-06-02T08:13:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T01:13:53","slug":"hyperlink-insecurity-perspectives-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/hyperlink-insecurity-perspectives-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperlink insecurity &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Hyperlink+insecurity\/2010-7348_3-6030719.html?tag=alert\">Hyperlink insecurity | Perspectives | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\nF<em>or more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where no Web site or hyperlink can be trusted, and a simple click on a hyperlink could slam your computer with a malicious driveby download. Sound far-fetched? It&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Today, trusted Web sites can no longer be trusted. Those of us who collectively click on the billions of hyperlinks generated each day by search engines, blogs and e-mail are playing Russian roulette with our computers.<\/p>\n<p>Can the search results of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Technorati really be so hazardous to our computers&#8217; health? Sadly, the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>So why do we click on hyperlinks with such wild abandon? The answer is that most of us have been taught that as long as we&#8217;re not accessing pornography or illegal file-sharing sites, and as long as we keep our antivirus and anti-spyware updated, we&#8217;re safe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for a reality check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperlink insecurity | Perspectives | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Imagine a world where no Web site or hyperlink can be trusted, and a simple click on a hyperlink could slam your computer with a malicious driveby download. Sound far-fetched? It&#8217;s not. Today, trusted Web sites can no longer be trusted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spyware","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}