Be Afraid: Websense Security Lab's Biannual State of Internet Security Report

Link to February 5 DaniWeb post (via Slashdot).

Some of the numbers from the Websense Security Labs report:

95% of user-generated posts on Web sites are spam or malicious.

85.8% of all emails were spam.

81% of emails during the second half of the year [2009] contained a malicious link.

71% of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised.

58% of all data-stealing attacks are conducted over the Web.

13.7% of searches for trending news/buzz words (as defined by Yahoo Buzz & Google Trends) led to malware.

Link to report. (pdf file)