McAfee’s 3rd Annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report highlights the top-level domains with the most road hazards.
Like the auto industry, the Internet wasn’t designed with seatbelts and airbags. It took years and some determined people to get the auto industry to make safety changes. McAfee’s latest report highlight’s why so many security vendors are offering add-on safety features to protect your browsing experience. In today’s Web, attackers are poking holes in legitimate websites to set up drive-by downloads, typosquatters are waiting for someone’s fat fingers to mistype a URL and many are using search engine optimization to get their mischievous sites listed prominently in search results.
McAfee uses its TrustSource Web reputation system to analyze Web content, traffic patterns and site behavior. It combines the data with information it collects from users of its SiteAdvisor browsing software. It looked at 104 of the world’s 280 top-level domains. Its latest 2009 Mapping the Mal Web (pdf) rankings are based on tests of more than 27,002,629 domain ratings. The following are the top 5 riskiest domains according to the analysis.
1.Cameroon (.cm)
2.Commercial (.com)
3.People’s Republic of China (.cn)
4.Samoa (.ws)
5.Information (.info)
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