As a follow up to my blog post from yesterday, I noticed that the Internet security vendor Websense also released a report on the state of Internet security [PDF] that largely confirms the SANS report discussed previously. The two take-away quotes that I found most interesting were:
“61 percent of the top 100 sites either hosted malicious content or contained a masked redirect to lure unsuspecting victims from legitimate sites to malicious sites.” and
“With their large user base, good reputations and support of Web 2.0 applications, these sites provide authors of malicious code with abundant opportunity to easily reach a wide number of victims with their attacks.”