Another year passes and even more security issues crop up on the Web. In an unsurprising report from Websense Security Labs recently, it seems that the number of malicious websites has multiplied more than two-fold from 2009 and data stealing attacks on the Web are on the rise as well. The most significant findings? The fact that many of the Web's 'nice neighborhoods' are going rogue as well. Many seemingly legitimate sites are hosting malicious content due to undetected attacks that plant malware to infect unsuspecting visitors. “What should organizations be most afraid of?" Patrik Runald, Websense security researcher, said in a statement. "You no longer have to go to dark corners of the Internet to find bad stuff.”
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From 2009 to 2010, the number of malicious websites skyrocketed by more than 111 percent.
Just under 80 percent of websites with malicious code examined by Websense Security Labs were legitimate sites that had been compromised.
40 percent of all Facebook status updates have links and 10 percent of those links are either spam or malicious.
Approximately 22.4 percent of search results for trends and breaking news stories currently contain malicious links.
That's ever-so-slightly more than the ratio of malicious links returned for search results for objectionable content such as porn, which returns about 21.8 percent malware-ridden content.
30.3 percent of all sites classed as shopping sites by Google search results contained malicious content.
34 percent of malicious HTTP attacks included data-stealing code.
Just over half of all data-stealing attacks occurred over the Web.
The top 5 hosts of data stealing code in 2010: 1. pc-optimizer.com 2. host127-0-0-1.com 3. beancountercity.com 4. 0texkax7c6hzuidk.com 5. googlegroups.com
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