Monday, June 9, 2008

Safest and Riskiest Domain Names on the Web

McAfee has released the second annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report which researched the riskiest and safest domain names on the Web. The new report reveals that 19.2% of all Web sites ending in the “.hk” domain (Hong Kong) pose a security threat to Web users!

The McAfee report further says that China (.cn) is second riskiest domain name at over 11% threat. Finland (.fi) remains the safest online destination for the second year with 0.05%, followed by Japan (.jp).

A study of generic domain names reveals that 11.8% of all sites ending in .info posing a security threat and is the third most dangerous domain overall while government websites (.gov) remained the safest generic domain. The most popular domain, .com, is the ninth riskiest overall.

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