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In its must read release of Websense Security Labs State of Internet Security, Q1 – Q2, 2009, whitepaper, Websense reveals several frightening internet trends. It seems no website is safe.

For example, Websense reveals a 233% growth in the number of malicious websites in the last 6 months. Seventy-seven percent of sites spewing malicious code “are legitimate sites that have been compromised.” Even scarier, “61% of the top 100 sites either hosted malicious content or contained a masked redirect to lure unsuspecting victims from legitimate sites to malicious sites.” Read more…

Tip#4

Be Paranoid About Your Identity

Bots crawl the internet 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week, looking for useful information. These bots are hungry for information and with high speed processing, low security, and unconcerned websites, they get their fill.

Social communities like facebook, MySpace and even Craigslist can provide the opportunities and the information for disaster. Identity thieves need just a little bit of data to allow criminals to reconstruct enough of an identity to get credit cards, loans or access to your bank account. Read more…