How would they do that? They aren’t security professionals. If anyone would get owned by a site, it would be them, after all.
This applies to just about any potential website though. You know how most malware gets served? Through ad networks in place on a random site (and probably via Flash). The site doesn’t get owned, the ad network does and the site just happens to be a vector.
That said, as I asked, if you’re running a “fully patched browser…what do you think will happen?”
Nope and those people will get owned, day in and day out, just doing normal web browsing. This catchy URL site isn’t any more likely to own them than Joe’s wordpress site that’s serving ad network data.
What this really says is the Internet is scary and people get owned. We both know that. I know you’re saying the journalists should probably check these things out. Putting my security hat on, if a journalist said they’d checked a site out and it was safe, I would have a good long belly laugh, wipe away the tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, and then assume that they had no clue anyway. The number of journalists who know anything about security, while greater than zero, is not high.
