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2007 X-Force Report Preview - Web Content Trends

Posted by Kris Lamb on February 07, 2008 at 2:59 PM EST.

Today we are previewing a trend from the web content section of the 2007 X-Force report. The trend we chose shows the geographic distribution of web content monitored in 2007 that we classify as criminal. It is important to note that we classify criminal content by urls that are assigned to one or more of the following Web Filter Database categories by our webcrawler:

Anonymous Proxies
Computer Crime
Illegal Activities
Illegal Drugs
Malware
Violence/Extreme
Warez/Hacking/Illegal Software

 

Current Distribution of Criminal Content

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