Hong Kong (.hk) is the most risky county TLD

McAfee has published a study in June 2008 about the malicious web site across the world. It shows an interesting information about the country TLDs (for example (.sa) for Saudi Arabia and (.ae) for UAE) and a generic TLDs (for example (.com) and (.info)). McAfee has tested 9.9 million web sites across the world; 4.1 % of the tested web sites rated as red (avoid) and yellow (use caution).

One of the most interesting information is that Hong Kong (.hk) country TLD is the most risky TLD in the world in 2008 ! 19.2 % of these red and yellow sites are belonged to .hk. China (.cn) scores the second risky country TLD with 11.8 %; Slovenia (.si), Norway (.no) and Japan (.jp) are the least-risky country TLD. For the generic TLD, .info is the most risiest one with 11.8!; .com scores the fourth risky generic TLD.

More and more interesting information are available in this amazing study; below is the study in PDF format:
http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/Mapping_Mal_Web.pdf?cid=

Many thanks to Security Now podcast for mentioning this information. In addition, thanks to my friend Abdullah Al-Dosari who challenged me to addict listening to this show.