04 June 2008

It's simple; don't go there

"McAfee released its second annual Mapping the Mal Web report today, with updated information on which high-level domains are typically the least safe to surf. The company's results are based on a survey of 265 top-level domains, and includes both country-specific (.de, .uk, .tw) and general use (.info, .com, .net) domains. The most dangerous domain to surf this year was Hong Kong (.hk); McAfee's SiteAdvisor classifies a full 19.2 percent of the websites under that domain as unsafe. That's quite a jump for the .hk domain, which previously ranked 28th on McAfee's 2007 list. China (.cn), took the number two spot, up from 11th last year, while the Philippines, Romania, and Russia all placed within the Top 10. At the opposite end of the list, Finland, Japan, Norway, and Colombia are among the safest domains, and collectively account for only a fraction of total malicious traffic."

Rico says he nearly got burned by a really well done Google spoof site out of the .cn domain, so he's far more careful now...

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