Google Blogger "hosts 2% of world's malware"

Slashdot mentions a report from the security firm Sophos stating that Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the web. The firm claims hackers are building pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code or else just post links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments.

Sophos' senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley, says Blogger is worse than other blogging services because of its close ties with the search giant.

"The attraction for the bad guys in targeting Blogger is that things pretty much get spidered instantly into Google, because it [Blogger] is part of Google," he says.

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