Research Study finds 470 Million Websites Exist for Less Than 24 hours; 22 Percent Used to Facilitate Attacks

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the market leader in business assurance technology, today announced that 71 percent of hostnames appeared for just 24 hours. While the majority of these “One-Day Wonders” are the backbone for how Internet content is shared and delivered, the sheer volume provides cover for malicious activity, including communication to infected systems. The new report from the Blue Coat Security Labs, “One-Day Wonders: How Malware Hides among the Internet’s Short-Lived Websites,”  details the nature and activities of these