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The Most Dangerous Domains
The top five domains ranked in terms of the prevalence of dangerous downloads are .info; .ro; .ws; .biz; and .cn.
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 released on Wednesday by McAfee. McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited" 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. To read the article, click here |
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