Eweek.com is reporting that a study released by Websense shows an enormous increase in the number of malicious websites in the last year. One finding that I found most interesting was the following:
Nearly 80 percent of all malicious sites are compromised legitimate Websites, a statistic Websense Senior Manager of Security Research Patrik Runald called "a huge number."
Again, it just shows that one should never assume that any site is safe.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Malicious-Websites-Jump-Dramatically-in-2010-835022/