Google's blogger platform cited as number one source of malware

Posted 4 min ago by Kesavan Unnikrishnan in Internet | 6 views A study conducted recently by an Internet security firm Sophos has found out that Google's blogging platform blogspot.com hosts more than two percent of World's malware. Google's blogging platform blogger holds the number one position in hosting the largest number of blogs. A recent study states that more than two percent of the malware in the Internet is spread by blogger making it to the top in spreading malware also. Sophos, a security vendor which makes antivirus software had conducted the study for the first half of 2008. Sophos security researcher Paul Ducklin said in the report With Google there is so much space in there... but it is surprising — two percent is enormous. The attraction for the bad guys in targeting Blogger is that things pretty much get... [read full story]