Wicked websites on the rise

The number of documented dangerous, virus-ridden websites have skyrocketed over the past few months, going from 5,000 new ones a day in April 2007 to nearly 30,000 a day midway through the year. InformationWeek notes that there are two reasons for this increase. Reason 1: while hackers are creating more of their own malicious websites, in most cases, they're still hacking into legitimate sites and embedding malware into them. Reason 2: researchers are simply getting better at finding them.

For more on the rising malware threat:
- read the full story in this InformationWeek Article