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06-06-2008, 01:39 PM
McAfee Names The Most Dangerous Domains (http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208402153)
By Thomas Claburn (tclaburn@cmp.com)
InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=AQH2MMS4TXGUUQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN)
June 4, 2008 05:00 PM
Web sites registered in top-level domains tied to Hong Kong (.hk), China (.cn), and the Philippines (.ph) are the most likely to pose a security threat to visitors, according to a study (http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf?cid=45044) released on Wednesday by McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/). McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited" (http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf?cid=45044) distills data from 9.9 million Web sites in 265 top-level Internet domains -- generic ones and national ones. From that information, a list of 74 domains containing at least 2,000 sites was compiled and rated for risk based on the prevalence of malware.
The report finds that 19.2% of all .hk Web sites present a security threat to Internet users. For .cn Web sites, 11% pose a security threat. For .ph, Web sites, 7.7% pose a danger. For the .ph domain, it was a 270% increase in overall risk from 2007, substantially higher than other domains.
Read more... (http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208402153)
By Thomas Claburn (tclaburn@cmp.com)
InformationWeek (http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=AQH2MMS4TXGUUQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN)
June 4, 2008 05:00 PM
Web sites registered in top-level domains tied to Hong Kong (.hk), China (.cn), and the Philippines (.ph) are the most likely to pose a security threat to visitors, according to a study (http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf?cid=45044) released on Wednesday by McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/). McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited" (http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf?cid=45044) distills data from 9.9 million Web sites in 265 top-level Internet domains -- generic ones and national ones. From that information, a list of 74 domains containing at least 2,000 sites was compiled and rated for risk based on the prevalence of malware.
The report finds that 19.2% of all .hk Web sites present a security threat to Internet users. For .cn Web sites, 11% pose a security threat. For .ph, Web sites, 7.7% pose a danger. For the .ph domain, it was a 270% increase in overall risk from 2007, substantially higher than other domains.
Read more... (http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208402153)