Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

["Hubbard, Dan" <dhubbard () websense com>]

:-).



-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Ned Fleming
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:47 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:48:17 -0800, "Hubbard, Dan"
<dhubbard () 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




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