A, up the clever quotient by launching when an e-mail is opened, not the attachment. Experts also worry about chat clients in the coming year. They provide nearly total anonymity, they can quickly and anony mously send rogue files to other chat clients or chat servers and the companies that run them, and the networks are always available. Another headache for next year, ironically, will be encryption. Virtual private networks for broadband users and increased acceptance of encrypted e-mail mean sentries at the gateways won't see malicious code and will let the encrypted bits waltz in or out the front door.
Awareness is way up.
That's good, especially with privacy. You know car manufacturers are required to recall products when they fail. Not so in software or the Internet yet. So you have to challenge your vendors. Assume security in their products is bad and ask them what they're doing about it.