In the Barracuda Labs 2010 midyear security report, Google was shown to give twice as much malware than Microsoft’s Bing, Google.com, and Yahoo! combined.
The report was taken during a two month period with analysis reviews over 5.5 million search results and 25,000 trending topics on Twitter. The purpose, as reported Net-Security, 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.”
In the report, which you can view here, Google distributes the most malware with 69 percent over Yahoo!’s 18 percent, Bing’s 12 percent, and Twitter’s 1 percent.
More than 25 million Twitter accounts were analyzed to measure account behavior on Twitter to model normal user behavior and find features that are strong indicators of malicious account use. The three key areas for Barracuda Labs review are: Twitter Crime Rate, True Twitter Users, and Tweet Number.
The report found that as Twitter activity increases, the more tweets that are being written, and casual users are being more active. As the casual users increases, so does the malicious activity. Half of Twitter users tweet less than once a day, with one and then users tweeting five or more times daily, with 30 percent of Twitter accounts being deserted accounts. Almost half of Twitter users only follow five or less accounts, and only one of ten are following over 100 people.
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