Google’s Web Threat Analysis
June 17th, 2007 by 
Joe
Google sees a lot of the internet. They decided to take a sample of the web pages they crawl, taking a close look at 4.5 million web sites they thought were suspicious. Of that group, there were 450,000 pages with exploits on them that compromised a PC. Another 700,000 were strongly suspected of having exploits, but didn’t actually compromise a PC.
They found that malicious web pages come about for four main reasons:
- Poor web-server security
- User-contributed content (blogs, MySpace, etc.)
- Advertising (banner ad space sold to unscrupulous third parties)
- Third-party "widgets" (little browser-based programs)
It’s a very academic (that is, dry and boring) read, but interesting non the less.
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