| [REPORT] .cm and .hk the most dangerous dominions of Internet |
 Cameroun (.cm) overcame to Hong Kong (.hk) like the dominion more dangerous Web, according to the third annual report of McAfee “Mapping the Badly Web” and that it more surely placed to Japan (.jp) like the dominion of country, than by second consecutive year, it appeared between the five dominions of greater security. In as much, the dominion Web with greater traffic of the world, the commercial dominion (.com), the second place between most dangerous raised of the ninth a, whereas the government dominion (.gov) is safest between the dominions that are not of country.According to Mike Gallagher, manager of technology of McAfee Labs, said that “This report emphasized the rapidity whereupon the cybernetic criminals change the tactics to attract a greater amount of victims and to avoid they catch that them. The last year, Hong Kong was the most dangerous dominion and now he is much more safe”. He added that “the cybernetic criminals prefer regions where is cheaper and advisable to register the sites, and where they run a smaller risk of being catched”. The study realised by the expert company in security expressed that Cameroun arrived at the first east place year. 36.7% of the .cm dominions represent a risk for the security, even though the 2008 east country did not appear in the list. Since .cm is a common error when writing .com, many cybernetic criminals created false sites of “typo-squatting” (deliberate advantage of typesetter errors with deceptive aims) that took to malicious unloadings, spyware, adware and other possible programs nonwished. After the administrators of dominions .hk took strict measures to control the registries related to frauds the last year, Hong Kong lowered 33 positions from the most dangerous dominion in 2008 to number 34 in 2009. Now only the 1.1% of the sites .hk is risky, in comparison with the last year in which this number corresponded to one of each five Web sites .hk. Other discoveries of the report “Mapping the Badly Web” 2009 include: • Of the 27 million Web sites and 104 dominions of first level that McAfee described for this report, 5.8% represented a security risk. • The sites registered with dominions Web of Asia-Pacific are considerably more dangerous than the Web generally, with a 13% of risky sites. This region includes the second more dangerous dominion, People's Republic of China (.cn), and ironically also the dominion Web more surely, Japan (.jp). • The generic dominion of information (.info) stayed between the five more dangerous dominions Web by second consecutive year. • Ireland (.ie) is the dominion European Web more insurance, just by a 0,1% of risky sites. The Chile, less risky of America The study of McAfee Labs sentenced that the dominion .cl, corresponding to Chile, classified as the less risky TLD of the continent and occupied position 82 of 104 between less risky. Of more than 44,000 dominions .CL that were verified, only 280 were classified like risky. This it is the third annual report that analyzed the relative risk of the level dominions superior (TLD). A TLD is one of the organizers of the Web and is the code of letters at the end of a Web site that it indicates where the site is registered. Patricio Poblete, administrator of dominion .CL, commented that “to register a dominion, the applicant must be resident of Chile or able to provide a contact that resides in the country.” He added that in both cases the applicant must offer a number of identification (RUT), that is the number of national identification of the people and the number of national tributary identification for companies. Poblete emphasized that “during the last year we changed our policies to accept the payments with credit card and now we used a system that requires confirmation by means of the use of the system of validation used by the bank of the client. This made difficult to them to the people with lists of credit cards robbed to pay by names of dominion .CL. We take this measurement mainly to avoid repudios, but also it served to prevent the registry with fraudulent dominions”. McAfee analyzed more than 27 million generic dominions Web and of country, consequently calculated an index of average risk. McAfee SiteAdvisor tested in the Web sites to detect exploits of navigator, electronic fraud (phishing), excess of emergent windows and malicious unloadings, according to which it assigned a qualification to the sites that failed. The technology of McAfee TrustedSource is a complete system of reputation in Internet that analyzes the landlords of traffic Web, the conduct of the site, the content and other factors, in order to provide an idea of the security risks that present/display the site. “For the users of computers not always it is easy to identify what is safe and what not”, it indicated Gallagher. “Information like this one and tools like McAfee SiteAdvisor, that is built-in to all the suites of security for consumers of McAfee, can be the compass that the users need to sail the Web”.
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