Barracuda security labs have conducted study across Bing,Google,Twitter and yahoo and yet another reveals shocking news. They conducted a 2 month study over these search engines; the analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search results. The purpose of the study was to analyze trending topics on popular search engines to understand the scope of the problem and to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors.
Results included:
- Google tops when when it comes to Malware distribution with its share of shocking 69% as much as twice as Bing ,Yahoo,Twitter combined don’t match with Google.Yahoo has 18% ,Bing has 12.5 % and twitter 1 %.
- A vulnerable topic appearing in Google takes nearly 1.2 days,Bing 4.3 days and Yahoo 4.8 days.
- Timespan found with maximum exposure is 4.00 am and 10.00 am GMT (Means main business hours in different geo locations).
- The top 10 terms used by malware distributors include the name of a NFL player, three actresses, a Playboy Playmate and a college student who faked his way into Harvard.
Twitter threat!
Barracuda labs also analyzed more than 25 million Twitter accounts (Malicious and Legitimate)
Some not so good results:
- People gets more attracted to twitter accounts, activity increases, tweets increases thus malicious activity increases.
- Another revealing is only 29% of Twitter accounts are true Twitter users.(Barracuda stats)
- Exclusive crime rate of Twitter was for the first half of 2010 was 1.67 %
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