Outlook 2010 Has Feature to Automatically Resize Photos

Many clients are caught with email that will not send. Often it is related to the size of the email attachment. While Adobe offers ways to reduce the size of the PDF, photos and jpeg’s are often confusing to resize. Outlook 2010 fixes this, through the following steps:

Picture files attached within Outlook

When you add attachments in Outlook, you can reduce picture attachments on a per-message basis. When you choose to resize large images, any attached image is reduced to a maximum resolution of 1024×768 pixels

 Note    If you embed the picture in the message body — the picture appears in the message — by using the Picture command in the Illustrations group, the image attachment resize feature is not available.

1. Create a new e-mail message in Outlook.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Include group, click Attach File.

 Tip    You can also drag and drop a picture from Windows Explorer. The picture file will be attached to the e-mail message.

3. In the message window, click the File tab.
4. Under Image Attachments, click Resize large images when I send this message.

5. Click the Message tab to return to your message.
6. When you are finished composing your e-mail message, click Send.

 

Read more here.

Symantec study: Hackers Go After Small Business

 

An interesting finding from Symantec that hackers are interested in businesses that have 250 or less employees.  It can be deduced that smaller companies don’t think about enterprise level security on the networks, mobile devices nor domain end-points.

According to the study:

 

In the first six months of the year, more than a third of targeted attacks on businesses were pointed toward companies with fewer than 250 employees. That was twice the percentage of attacks aimed at similar sized companies at the end of 2011, Symantec said in its mid-year Intelligence Report.

A targeted attack is one that’s tailored to a specific company. Cybercriminals customize malware to particular vulnerabilities and use information gathered publicly — or stolen from other companies — to create emails with malicious attachements that have a higher chance of being opened by employees. That type of social engineering has proved successful despite corporate efforts to bolster security training and warn workers away from opening potentially dangerous emails.

Black Hat Gathering Opens with Comment from Former FBI Cyber Crime Chief

The Black Hat Conference is under way and the first day opened with former FBI Cyber Crime Unit Chief explaining that the most destructive and worrisome problem facing the world today is cyber crime. Quoting the article Cyber defenders urged to go on the offense in Kioskea.com:

The first day of briefings at a prestigious Black Hat computer security gathering here opened with a former FBI cyber crime unit chief calling for a shift from defense to offense when it comes to protecting networks.

“We need warriors to fight our enemies, particularly in the cyber world right now,” Shawn Henry said in a Black Hat keynote presentation that kicked off with dramatic video of hostage rescue teams training.

“I believe the threat from computer network attack is the most significant threat we face as a civilized world, other than a weapon of mass destruction.”

The peril grows as water supplies, power grids, financial transactions, and more rely on the Internet and as modern lives increasingly involve working and playing on smartphones or tablet computers, according to Henry.

He rolled off a list of adversaries ranging from spies and well-funded criminals to disgruntled employees with inside knowledge of company networks.

“Cyber is the great equalizer,” Henry said.

“With a $500 laptop with an Internet connection anybody, anywhere in the world can attack any organization, any company,” he continued. “The last time I checked, that was about 2.3 billion people.”

 

Facebook Fake Tagged Photo Notification Emails

 

Craig Edmonds put together this picture of ways to recognize fake Facebook email notifications. The second point is very important – HOVER your mouse over the link and LOOK ON THE STATUS BAR to check the real destination of the link to facebook.com website or or fake address like http://facebook.mailspotter.ru

Craig Edmonds wrote up a great description of about fake Facebook notification emails and how to recognize them.

SOPHOS also wrote up a recent warning concerning fake Facebook photo tagging notifications. Please be careful when clicking on these email links – there is a very good chance it is fake.

Thunderbird – How To Reclassify Junk Email

Thunderbird is a fantastic free email client that does a wonderful job of filtering junk mail, learning junk email and functioning every day without a problem for the end user.

Thunderbird email client is a terrific email reader program that can and has helped many schools, businesses and individuals maintain their email on their computers. As SPAM has become more and more difficult to recognize, Thunderbird has turned these filters into very aggressive technology to protect users.  Since computer infections can now access and use real email addresses from your personal email address book, sending fake email and attachments, Thunderbird is trying to help users more than cause problems.

The good news is that you can teach Thunderbird junk mail filers what is real and what is not. Click on the sample below which illustrates how to reclassify email in Thunderbird.

Follow these steps to reclassify your Thunderbird junk email to be real email that stays in your Inbox.