Cognos, a software company ravaged by the Melissa virus, configured its mail servers to block incoming e-mail attachments exceeding 25KB.
Now they constantly evolve to tempt users into opening infected e-mail attachments by referring to recent news and using other "social engineering" tactics.
Companies should also consider developing broad policies related to e-mail attachments.
"There hasn't really been anything done to look at the unwashed masses of information that flow in and out of an enterprise" via e-mail attachments.
The new phones will allow users to take and receive pictures, which can be transmitted between similarly equipped handsets or to and from PCs as e-mail attachments.
Security analysts say they've already seen all of the major online threats -- Trojan horses, viruses, worms -- spreading on smartphones, often through e-mail attachments sent to the phones.
The only remaining key to preventing the expansion of Storm's zombie hordes may thus be prevention: If users stopped opening e-mail attachments from strangers--a basic security practice--Storm would lose its main avenue of infection.
By connecting the VR3 to a cell phone, users can send and receive e-mail and attachments and browse the Web.
Clarke offered few details, but he said the technology relies on a second processor and an embedded Linux system that allows users to bypass Windows to surf the Web, check e-mail and calendar, and view attachments the moment users flip up a laptop's lid.
You get an e-mail address from Posterous that you use to send attachments, text or Web clippings and up it goes on your Posterous blog.
Photo attachments require huge gobs of bandwidth compared with ordinary e-mail.
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