McAfee Reveals the Riskiest Web Domains to Surf and Search

Africa's Cameroon (.cm) has overthrown Hong Kong (.hk) as the Web's riskiest

domain, according to McAfee's third annual Mapping the Mal Web report, released

recently. At the opposite end, Japan (.jp) is the safest country domain, landing

in the top five safest domains for the second year in a row. The most heavily

trafficked Web domain in the world, commercial (.com), jumped from the ninth to

second most dangerous domain, while government (.gov) is the safest non-country

domain. This report underscores how quickly cybercriminals change tactics to

lure in the most victims and avoid being caught. Last year, Hong Kong was the

riskiest domain and this year it is dramatically safer.

Cameroon, a small African country that borders Nigeria, jumped to the number

one spot this year with 36.7 percent of the .cm domain posing a security risk,

but did not even make the list last year.