06/23/2014 Cyber security experts say some sites that claim to offer online streaming of World Cup games may pose risks, according to the Buenos Aires Herald..

By Mark Tarallo
Cyber security experts say some sites that claim to offer online streaming of World Cup games may pose risks, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. Scott Montgomery, a vice president at cyber security company McAfee, says some hackers try to take advantage of the global interest in the World Cup by registering official-sounding domains for the purpose of stealing credit cards or installing software on unsuspecting consumers’ computers. And Dmitry Bestuzhev, from the cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, cited a number of potential threats associated with sites claiming to offer live streams. Some Web sites promise high-quality streams for a cost but don’t deliver, he says. Others ask viewers to install plugins to watch the games but instead install software that can drain computers’ processing powers. Such programs sometimes aren’t outright illegal but exist in a sort of gray area, Bestuzhev said. The type of malicious software his company sees on sites aimed at World Cup viewers is “fairly common” on other shady sites that claim to offer streaming video, he added.
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