New Study Continues to Show Internet Becoming Increasingly Dangerous as Malware Infections Rise Rapidly

What's happening: According to the latest statistics, the number of web sites hosting malware—either intentionally or inadvertantly—continues to rise at an alarming rate.

What it means: This latest report confirms what IBM said in their "Online Threat Report" of last August. (See our blog post: IBM Online Threat Report: Trust No One)

What to do: Management needs to make sure their information systems security management program is up-to-date, with the defense-in-depth required to deal with these new threats.

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cnet News: Elinor Mills: Web-based malware infections rise rapidly, stats show

The number of Web sites hosting malicious software, either intentionally or unwittingly, is rising rapidly, according to statistics to be released on Tuesday from Dasient. More than 640,000 Web sites and about 5.8 million pages are infected with malware, according to Dasient, which was founded by former Googlers to offer services to help Web sites stay malware-free and off blacklists. That figure for infected pages is nearly double what Microsoft estimated in a report in April. Meanwhile, the Google blacklist of malware infected sites has more than doubled in the last year, registering as many as 40,000 new sites in one week.

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