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Dasient, the web security firm founded by ex-Google staffers that launched in June of this year, have published a blog post which shows just how dangerous a place the web is becoming.
If you do any computer service - either as a job or a favor to friends and family - you've no doubt seen the end result of these attacks. Fake antivirus applications continue to be the biggest source of business at my day job. That's all thanks to a web that has been slow to adapt to the presence of these threats.
According to the data Dasient has gathered to date, they estimate the number of compromised web sites to be about 640,000. Netcraft puts the total number of sites on the Internet at around 240 million - so compromised sites only amount to .26% of the whole. Still, those 640,000 sites are serving as many many as 5.8 million infected pages says Dasient, up sharply from the 3 million pages earlier this year reported by Microsoft.
If you do any computer service - either as a job or a favor to friends and family - you've no doubt seen the end result of these attacks. Fake antivirus applications continue to be the biggest source of business at my day job. That's all thanks to a web that has been slow to adapt to the presence of these threats.
According to the data Dasient has gathered to date, they estimate the number of compromised web sites to be about 640,000. Netcraft puts the total number of sites on the Internet at around 240 million - so compromised sites only amount to .26% of the whole. Still, those 640,000 sites are serving as many many as 5.8 million infected pages says Dasient, up sharply from the 3 million pages earlier this year reported by Microsoft.
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