The world's busiest web domain, .com, is now the most dangerous, according to McAfee's fourth annual Mapping the Mal Web report released today.
While .com was found to be the riskiest top-level domain, the most dangerous country domain is Vietnam (.vn). Japan's .jp ranks as the safest country domain for the second year in a row.
The report also found 6.2 percent of the 27 million websites analyzed pose a security risk, up from last year's 5.8 percent.
The study found the riskiest country web domains after Vietnam include Cameroon, Armenia, Cocos and Russia. Among the safest domains after Japan were Catalan, Guernsey, Croatia and Ireland.
Also, .travel and .edu were deemed the safest top-level domains with less than .05 percent of sites infected. Another key discovery of the study was that a clean domain deters cyber criminals.
According to the report, cyber criminals are hesitant about touching domains that have stricter restrictions. [Date: 26 October 2010; Source: http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2010/10/26/worlds-riskiest-web-domains/]
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