More than one million websites were believed to be infected with malware in the fourth quarter of 2010, nearly double the previous year, according to figures released on Tuesday by Dasient.
Security firm Dasient has reported that more than one million websites were infected with malware in the fourth quarter of 2010. Photo credit: Dasient
Malvertising, advertising containing malware, is also on the rise, with impressions doubling to three million per day from the third quarter of 2010, Dasient said in a blog post. "The probability that an average internet user will hit an infected page after three months of web browsing is 95 percent," the company said.
The news corresponds with information released this week by another security firm. An analysis of than 3,000 websites across 400 organisations in 2010 found that 44 percent of them had serious vulnerabilities at all times, while 24 percent were frequently vulnerable for an average of at least 270 days a year, according to WhiteHat Security.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Report: Malware-laden sites double from a year ago on CNET News.
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