Google claims 10 Percent of websites malicious
Google released a report that states that 10 percent of websites are dangerous.  Â
 First of all, I would like to say that Google is doing some great work. This is the second major news that I have seen based on reports from Google. These reports show that Google is using its position as the search leader to give back to the computing community. The report on hard drive failure trends did not have to be released. However, since Google is using so many hard drives for its service, in my opinion it is great that they are giving back by releasing this info in a report form.
 As for the most recent report. It appears that the trend of malicious software dropper sites is increasing. I was surprised when this article came out claiming that web threats are surpassing email threats. I was mainly surprised that it hadn’t already. The cross-site scripting hacks seem to be causing the most problems for the issues I have witnessed. I think people might be better at sniffing out email garbage than website garbage. The same rules apply, don’t click on things you are not sure about, and be careful to know where you are. You no longer have to be in a ‘bad neighborhood’ on the internet to get into trouble. Many sites are being hacked because of aging code, and poor security. For more on this take a look at my post on How Malware Infects.
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