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Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising (engadget.com)

Deathlizard writes with a report at Engadget that when this year's "Forbes 30 Under 30" list came out , "it featured a prominent security researcher. Other researchers were pleased to see one of their own getting positive attention, and visited the site in droves to view the list. On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information."

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  1. Re:They Made Mozilla Their Bitch For a Reason by mridoni · · Score: 4, Funny

    The faggots, of course, think it was all about "homophobia".

    I wonder how they got that idea.