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XForce report - spam (and Turkey)
In our last installment the XForce was busy keeping you safe on the Internet. In this episode it's XForce versus the evil spam. Spam, as we all know, is a pain in the rear. The XForce report covers a lot of ground on spam and phishing.
Some of the things the report covers (that I won't):
- What happened to image-based spam?
- How much spam is phishing?
- How much spam is PDF spam?
- Where are the web pages contained in spam messages hosted?
The XForce report also lists the most common subject lines for spam and surprisingly, there is not a mention of Viagra in any of them. The most popular spam subject line, at .67% of the world's spam is - Replica Watches. I know, boring, isn't it? The second and third most popular subject lines are about more risque topics.
If all this talk of spam has that lovely Monty Python song stuck in your head, go try the spam-a-lot game. But if you're at work you might want to turn your speakers down (or off)!
The XForce won't save you from a burning building but, they just might make your surfing safer. The XForce is IBM's team of Internet Security Systems researchers and they've just released the 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
