Sites Hosting User Content Open Opportunities for Security Threats

According to a recent report from security company Commtouch, considerable increase in content generated from user participation has resulted in fresh Internet security threats.

The report named 'Internet Threats Trend Report' for the last quarter of 2008 reveals that streaming download and media sites are among the ten most highly malware infested websites tainted by phishing. These two kinds of websites commonly include content generated by user.

Amir Lev, Chief Technology Officer, Commtouch, said that with a huge growth in user created content on file sharing networks, social networks and blogs over the recent years, malicious code writers and spa...

» SPAMfighter News - 19-01-2009