Google Crowned "King Of Malware" By Security Firm
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Google has been dubbed the "King of Malware" by security firm Barracuda Networks after it found that the search engine linked to more sites containing malware than Yahoo, Bing and Twitter combined.The study, which analysed in detail 25,000 Trending Topics, comprising 5.5 million search results, found that Google's search engine accounted for 69 per cent of links to malware, with Yahoo and Bing at 18 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively.Micro-blogging platform Twitter...
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