Hong Kong has been declared the world’s most dangerous place to visit - on the internet, at least.
Websites which end with .hk - the country code for Hong Kong - have the greatest number of vulnerabilities out of any of so-called top level domains, according to a report by the online security company McAfee.
One site in five with the .hk suffix posed a security threat, the report found, followed by China (.cn), where 11 per cent of sites were compromised. The safest country codes were those of Finland and Japan.
Experts said that Hong Kong had been singled out because of the lower cost of registering domain names there, and because criminals were able to register multiple domains at once, meaning that they