Google Hosts More Malware Than Anyone Else
Security firm Sophos has been poking around the Internet on the hunt for malware and found out that Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Blogger service is the world's No. 1 repository for the evil code. Some 2% of all malware can be found on Google's servers. Google, time to clean house.
Blogging services are rife with malware because just about anyone can set up a blog without having to provide positive identification. Sophos, which makes antivirus software, is constantly poking about for malware. Sophos finds a Web page with nasty code 12 times per minute, with 16,000 naughty Web pages discovered each day.
Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said, "Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware. It's head and shoulders above the rest of the blogging services. The attraction for the bad guys in targeting Blogger is that things pretty much get spidered instantly into Google, because Blogger is part of Google."
