Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Company names risky Web domains


When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal.


Web surfing may be more dangerous on some sites than others, report finds.

A report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. says companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others.

McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information).

Of all ".hk" sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of ".cn" sites and 11.7 percent of ".info" sites that way.

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Blogger Catherine said...

Is there any more information? It's hard for this news to make me jump out of my seat when this article doesn't explain what a risky website actually is.... could you elaborate, please?

June 5, 2008 at 5:03 AM  

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