Spyget: Google's Blogger Makes Up 2-Percent Of All Malware Hosts

Spyget > Google's Blogger Makes Up 2-Percent Of All Malware Hosts

[Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] 1 host for malware from News.com reports Google's Blogger accounts "for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts." Sophos, an antivirus vendor, published a report showing the state of malware injections and attacks throughout the web.

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[Pulse 2.0: Web 2.0 Reviews & Profiles] Google Blogger Hosts 2% Of Malware On The Web: Spammers take advantage of Blogger since Google indexes their subsidiary pages regularly. “The attraction for the bad guys in targeting Blogger is that things pretty much get spidered instantly into Google, because it [Blogger] is part of Google,” added Cluley. Cluley gave Google credit for getting rid of malicious sites as they are flagged, but over 16,000 spam sites are created everyday. There is only so much that a search engine company can do.

[Linux Today] Google Blogger "hosts 2% of world's malware": PCPro: ""Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware," according to Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley. "It's head and shoulders above the rest .

[Technology news] Blogger hosts 2% of world's malware: Security research and analysis firm Sophos has released its cybercrime report for the first half of 2008 and found Blogger, a property of Google, to be the prime distributer of malware today.

[Homotron.net] Blogspot Number One Malware Host: Illegitimate sites find fertile ground with Geocities and Google-owned Blogger/Blogspot, both of which let users set up web sites easily while providing little personal information. Blogger accounts for 2% of malware host sites and can not only host malicious code but is vulnerable to malicious links in its comments.

[CNET News - Security] Blogspot.com cited as the number one host for malware: According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007. In its Security Threat Report for the first half of 2008, .

[Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere] Blogspot.com #1 Malware Source Says Sophos: Blogger, owned by Google, is particularly problematic, says Sophos, with the blog site alone accounting for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts. I is not only possible for the Blogger sites to host malicious code, but criminal .

[The Blog Herald] Google Delivers 2% of World’s Malware: The founder of The Blog Herald, one Duncan Riley, also known from TechCrunch, b5media, and his current project The Inquisitr, is interviewed over at BloggerTalks. The interview tackles his clash with Michael Arrington, how The Inquisitr was built on a premium WordPress theme, and his views on the development of The Blog Herald - this [...]

[2020 Hindsight] Don’t host evil: Blogspot and malware: CNET: “Blogger, owned by Google, is particularly problematic, says Sophos, with the blog site alone accounting for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts.” Google/Blogspot says they’re fighting the malware fight, tho.

[Brian D. Hawkins] One More Reason To Use WordPress: “Sophos has identified that the number one host for malware on the web is Blogger (Blogspot.com), which allows computer users to make their own websites easily at no charge. Hackers both set up malicious blogs on the service, and inject dangerous web links and content into innocent blogs in the form of comments.