Google Finds 9,500 Malicious Sites Every Day

zigzag3143 · Jun 19, 2012

Google today provided an update on its security efforts, revealing that it identifies almost 10,000 new malicious websites every day and serves up millions of daily malware-related warnings to users.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,281.../pcmag/breakingnews+(PCMag.com+Breaking+News)

zigzag3143 · Jun 19, 2012

Another source

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/google-detects-9500-new-malicious-websites-daily/

JMH · Jun 19, 2012

Google: 9,500 New Malicious Sites Appear Each and Every Day

Knowledge is power, and Spiderman always said that great power came with great responsibility, but what we're learning this week isn't making us feel proactive -- instead it's making us want to don our tinfoil hats and curl up in a ball in the deepest corner of our darkest closets. A day after Google filled us in on just how many speech-squashing takedowns it gets from the U.S. government, the company pulled the curtain even farther with a blog post this morning sharing just how many badware-peddling sites are online. It's a lot.

Niels Provos of Google's security team laid out hard figures in his post. Here's the scariest bit:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/google_9500_new_malicious_sites_appear_each_and_every_day

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Google Finds 9,500 Malicious Sites Every Day

zigzag3143

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