Websense released their State of Internet Security Report for the first half of 2009. While this report's conclusions are nothing new (malicious software, cybercrime, and spam are all growing more common), it does contain some particularly interesting statistics that I would like to share.

Here are some of the report's highlights:

• The number of malicious sites has grown by 671% over the last year.
• 77% of web sites with malicious content are actually legitimate sites that have been compromised by cyber criminals.
• 95% of comments on chat rooms, blogs and forums are either spam or malicious code.
• 57% of data stealing attacks are conducted over the web.