McAfee Picks the Most Dangerous TLDs

CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes "Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are .hk, .cn, and .info. Of all .hk sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of .cn sites and 11.7 percent of .info sites that way. A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the .com domain — the world's most popular — were identified as dangerous."

Comments

Which is more dangerous, then?

[Hawthorne01]

5% of .coms, or 19% of .hk's? On a percentage basis, the .hk, .info, etc. But as a whole, my money's on .com's?.

Bad math = bad reporting.

not their problem

[Brian Gordon]

"Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others"
um since when is that the registrar's responsibility? they just point a domain name at an IP address-- that's the extent of the service.

Re:not their problem

[aredubya74]

Exactly. I'd be much more interested in looking at the stats by assigned IP blocks. That way, network admins could blacklist those ranges at their edge, adding exceptions as needed. It's a tough game to play, but it would also give admins an idea as to what ISPs are leaving obvious botnets intact and which ones aren't.

Age of website?

[QuietLagoon]

I'd bet if they would find an even better correlation if they looked at the age of the website's domain registration, not the domain it was registered under.