Apr 01 2010
Crank on that firewall, update that virus protection and surf the net!
A new report from Websense says that a staggeringly small 5 percent of user content is not a part of some malicious plot or hacker ploy.
Well I’m feeling paranoid.
The report also found that 13 percent of searches for trending news lead to malicious code such as Trojan viruses or spam sites.
During the second half of 2009 Websense Security Labs discovered:
• 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message boards are spam or malicious
• 35 percent of malicious Web attacks included data-stealing code
• 58 percent of data-stealing attacks are conducted over the Web
• 85.8 percent of all emails were spam
• an average growth of 225 percent in malicious Web sites