Web 2.0 has become very popular in the past couple of years to describe the second generation of the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 focuses on collaboration and community based sharing. Web 2.0 is a place for people to create, collaborate and share their own content. Blogs, Wikis, Photos, and videos are all examples of this.
However there is a downfall to this seemingly great new thing. Because anyone and everyone can upload content, Web 2.0 is an easy target for hackers to input malicious codes and inappropriate content. Web 2.0 is also more susceptible to external threats because they have more interactions with the browser.
An even bigger problem to the beginner user is that many of these websites are considered “safe” or “trusted” by URL filtering and are not blocked even though these websites might contain malicious code.
