On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:48:17 -0800, "Hubbard, Dan" <dhubb...@websense.com> wrote:
>I am guilty of being way late to this party, however... > >Whoever started this thread where did you get the 95% stat from? This may be >completely off and/or irrelevant but I am *guessing* that the stat 95% of User >Generated Content (UGC) is coming from us. This actually is *not* email SPAM. >This is comment-spam in the form of web-posts into blogs, forums,etc.. > >Just wondering if the leap was made from UGC to email SPAM somehow. > Oh, ha ha ha! Finally, something funny on funsec. The OP had this: >According the Websense Security Labs 'state of Internet security report' 95% >of User Generated Content is spam or malicious & 85% of all email is spam. > >The finer points: > > 13.7 percent of searches for trending news/buzz words (as defined by Yahoo >Buzz & Google Trends) lead to malware > 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message >boards are spam or malicious > 35 percent of malicious Web attacks included data-stealing code > 58 percent of data-stealing attacks are conducted over the Web > 85.8 percent of all emails were spam > an average growth of 225 percent in malicious Web sites > >http://community.websense.com/blogs/websense-features/archive/2010/02/01/websense-security-labs-report-state-of-internet-security-q3-q4-2009.aspx Shoot, we'll have to redo the conversation with 85.8 percent instead of 95 percent. Dang it! Ned _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.