Google Detects 9500 Malicious Sites Per Day

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."

Comments

Malicious?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Google include *.gov?

Re:How accurate is this?

[The MAZZTer]

Well for starters it's open source so you can see for yourself.

Phishing site hotspots

[el_flynn]

This image from Google's blog post 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.