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.