Hong Kong named and shamed on web danger list
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, Spyware, Security, Internet on
McAfee Inc has named Hong Kong as the most dangerous country domain on the web, jumping up 28 places from this time last year. According to the Mapping the Mal Web Revisited report, McAfee says that Tokelau, a tiny island of 1,500 inhabitants in the South Pacific, has lost its crown as king of web danger. Apparently, 19.2 percent of all websites ending in the .hk domain pose a security risk to users. China is close behind in second place, while Finland, Ireland and Japan are the safest places to surf.
The research compared ratings of sites found in each of 265 country and generic domains, ranking them by way of the number of risky Web sites found in each domain using SiteAdvisor technology which contained adware, spyware, viruses, spam, excessive pop-ups, browser exploits or links to other ‘red-rated’ sites.
Other key findings from the report include:
- Your chances of downloading malware from surfing the web has increased by 41.5 percent since last year.
- The Philippines has seen a 270 percent increase in overall riskiness.
- Spain has seen a 91 percent increase in overall risk.
“For administrators of top-level domains this study should act as a wake-up call. Last year’s report spurred Tokelau’s domain manager to re-examine its policies,” said Jeff Green, Senior Vice President of Product Development & Avert Labs. “Not all domain managers are as accommodating so our mission is to educate consumers of the dangers and protect them in every way they enjoy the Web whether through their PC, the Web itself, or mobile phone.”
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