Websense reports that in the latter half of 2009:
- 13.7 percent of searches for trending news/buzz words (as defined by Yahoo Buzz & Google Trends) lead to malware,
- 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message boards are spam or malicious,
- 35 percent of malicious Web attacks included data-stealing code,
- 58 percent of data-stealing attacks are conducted over the Web, and
- 85.8 percent of all emails were spam.
