Online Security Blog
May 21st, 2007
To promote discussion on trends, interesting findings, and other efforts related to web security, check out Google’s Online Security Blog. For its first post, the blog discusses the issue of Malware:
Malware - surreptitious software capable of stealing sensitive information from your computer is increasingly spreading over the web.
Users who have unsecured web browsers and plug-ins installed on their system are more vulnerable to attacks by this malware. And if not properly looked into, the user’s system will be seriously damaged.
The blogger also shown a study by Google to identify distribution host of Malware that it has identified and cut off. Based on the study, China, U.S. German and Russia tops the list of countries where malwares come from.
Recognizing the significance of this problem, Google recommends enabling the automatic updates for OS, web browsers and web browser plug-in to make sure that the latest security patches are installed in users’ systems. This would make it really difficult for malwares to attack and destroy critical system operations.
Kudos to Google for their effort for making users more aware of different online security issues via their new blog.