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One Million Sites Infected With Malware In Q2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the show-me-the-pinkee dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "More than one million Web domains were infected with malicious code in the second quarter of 2010 — around one percent of all active Web domains, according to new data. The number of infected domains was extrapolated from data gained through a sample scan of what Dasient describes as 'millions of Web sites,' as well as from customer deployments. It suggests that compromises of Web sites are on the rise, as attackers look to push out malicious programs through so-called drive by download attacks."

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  1. *domains* infected? What? by Kaz+Kylheku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A domain is a node in the DNS namespace. How does that get infected?

    If a web server hosts 20 domains, and is infected, does that count as 20 infections?

    "Web site", "domain" and "host" are not interchangeable.