Avoiding the seedy side of the World Wide Web used to keep you relatively safe from viruses and malware. Not anymore though. Google recently released data showing that legitimate web sites, which have been hacked, are a growing danger and are infecting the users of unsuspecting visitors.
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If your strategy for remaining safe and secure online is mainly to avoid visiting dodgy Web sites, it’s time to consider a new approach. Data released today by Google serves as a welcome reminder that drive-by malware attacks are far more likely to come from hacked, legitimate Web sites than from sites set up by attackers to intentionally host and distribute malicious software.
Read Entire ArticleToday, Google released a truckload of data from its Safe Browsing program, which flags and warns users about more than 10,000 suspicious and malicious Web sites each day. The information clearly shows that gone are the days when folks could avoid giving their computers a nasty little rash simply by staying out of the Internet’s red-light districts (networks with large aggregations of porn and piracy sites, for example).