Google Detects 9500 Malicious Sites Per Day 69
An anonymous reader writes "Five years after it was first introduced, Google's Safe Browsing program continues to provide a service to the 600 million Chrome, Firefox, and Safari users, as well as those searching for content through the company's eponymous search engine. According to Google Security Team member Niels Provos, the program detects about 9,500 new malicious websites and pops up several million warnings every day to Internet users. Once a site has been cleaned up, the warning is lifted. They provide malware warnings for about 300 thousand downloads per day through their download protection service for Chrome."
Malware Bad - Extortion Attempts Okay (Score:0, Interesting)
Detects malicious websites, but allows mugshots.com to end up at the top of search results. My own site (with a myfullname.com), my twitter page, my linkedin profile, etc., etc., etc. are all now listed after a mugshots.com page for someone else with the exact same name as me. Mugshots.com is nothing but an extortion attempt. And I get to suffer because someone thug has the same name I do.
Phishing site hotspots (Score:4, Interesting)
This [blogspot.com] image from Google's blog post [blogspot.co.uk] shows that majority of the phishing sites are hosted in the US. Interestingly, most of Africa is relatively "clean", except for Algeria and South Africa.