Having found the actual report (http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-istr_main_report_2011_21239364.en-us.pdf), a better headline would be "anything riskier than porn for online viruses". (This isn't the fault of the AP - the comparison between porn and religious/ideological sites is from the report itself.)
Or maybe not. Figure 16 on page 30 of the report lists "Top-10 Most Frequently Exploited Categories Of Web Sites" in one column, and "% Of Total Number Of Infected Web Sites" in the other, with "Blogs/Web Communications" in first place with 19.8%, and "Pornography" in 10th place with 2.4%. But I think all that means is that there's a metric shitload of shitty blogs with only a few entries, many of which have been infected by malware, and comparatively fewer porn sites as a general rule. The report does say "religious and ideological sites were found to have triple the average number of threats per infected site than adult/pornographic sites" but doesn't actually include figures to back this up, so there's no way of telling whether porn sites are unusually safe, religious sites are unusually risky, or both, or whether the report's authors have just cherry-picked a factoid from their data.
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-05-08 11:40 am (UTC)Here, the headline is "Religion riskier than porn for online viruses" - you should be able to find it using that.
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Date: 2012-05-08 12:33 pm (UTC)Or maybe not. Figure 16 on page 30 of the report lists "Top-10 Most Frequently Exploited Categories Of Web Sites" in one column, and "% Of Total Number Of Infected Web Sites" in the other, with "Blogs/Web Communications" in first place with 19.8%, and "Pornography" in 10th place with 2.4%. But I think all that means is that there's a metric shitload of shitty blogs with only a few entries, many of which have been infected by malware, and comparatively fewer porn sites as a general rule. The report does say "religious and ideological sites were found to have triple the average number of threats per infected site than adult/pornographic sites" but doesn't actually include figures to back this up, so there's no way of telling whether porn sites are unusually safe, religious sites are unusually risky, or both, or whether the report's authors have just cherry-picked a factoid from their data.