Worthy Read: Website Hacking Epidemic Spreads

More than two million more web pages were infected with malware during the third quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter last year, according to data gathered by web anti-malware vendor Dasient.

From July until September, approximately 640,000 different websites — and a total of 5.8 million pages on those sites — were infected to distribute malware, Dasient found through studying data collected on its malware analysis platform.