A recent study conducted by Google in collaboration with UC Berkeley showed that 760,935 websites were hacked in just one year!
The research examines the effectiveness of Google's Safe Browsing Alerts initiative, which aims to proactively inform network administrators about potential security breaches and harmful URLs on their websites.
Analyzing data collected from July 2014 to June 2015, researchers concluded that ongoing communication with webmasters makes it 50% more likely that administrators will eliminate reported problems.
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Furthermore, the study claims that sending notifications to administrators could reduce the length of a website infection by at least 62%.
The researchers also measured the technical ability of webmasters to successfully address security breaches. According to their findings, 80% of administrators managed to get rid of harmful content on their first attempt, while only 12% fell victim to a new attack within 30 days of fixing the bug.
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The report also shows that over a third of all websites examined by Google that were at risk were in English, with Chinese, German, Japanese and Russian completing the top five.
When it comes to the most breached platforms, WordPress comes out on top, accounting for nearly half of all attacks. But that's not surprising given that the popular content management system is used on more than a quarter of all websites on the Internet.
Currently, Google monitors over 22,000 autonomous systems, or about 40% of all active networks.
The study is part of Google's effort to make the World Wide Web a safer place by encouraging webmasters to sign up for Safe Browsing Alerts.
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