80 Percent of the Blogs Are Dangerous

Third Eye · 25-04-2007, 10:51 AM

Shocking number revealed by ScanSafe

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The online blogs tend to become somehow mandatory because almost every Internet user owns a blog or is looking for a powerful service to host one. However, the blogs are not always
useful and efficient because they might represents an easy way to exploit several vulnerabilities on the visitors' computers. According to a ScanSafe recently report, 80 percent of the Internet blogs are containing malicious files such as adult language and pornographic pictures. More than that, 6 percent of them contain malware infections, the most popular being Trojan.Win32.Diamin.js, Trojan-Downloader.VBS.Small.ca and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.acc.

"Blogs are a great vehicle for self-expression and the exchange of ideas. Employees visiting these sites can unknowingly expose corporate networks to legal liability, viruses and loss of proprietary information. The content on blogs and other sites powered by user contributed content is constantly changing. As a result, Web security solutions that rely on Web crawling - or periodically scouring the Web for threats - rather than actually scanning the URL each time it is requested, can leave users exposed to malware and unwanted content," said Dan Nadir, vice president, product strategy, ScanSafe, according to a press release published on the company's website.

As you know, Google owns Blogger, one of the largest blog communities on the Internet with millions of accounts already created. Some time ago, the Mountain View-based company encountered a lot of problems with the blogs' security, the company receiving an impressive number of complaints sent by the users. At that time, Google decided to implement a new feature on every blog that will help visitors flag a certain blog as inappropriate. When multiple readers flag the same blog, the company will review the content published on it and will suspend the account in order to remove the malicious content.

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