Al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden’s death is widely used today by hackers to lure unwitting people into installing malware. The tricks work because people want to see the photos of a dead Al Qaeda leader, but the alleged pictures of bin Laden’s corps are in fact malicious, warned the FBI.

"It's not really surprising," said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer of Helsinki-based F-Secure. "We were expecting to see related malware."

While many people around the globe gathered together on special squares to express their joy on the death of the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden there were those who expressed their feelings on the Internet. Before the announcement made by the US President Barack Obama people learned the news from the microblogging service Twitter.

The news dominated the social networking site once it became official.