Article: Increases in Webmail storage heighten spectre of Intellectual Property theft, warns ibas; Data thieves eye up Google, Yahoo! and Lycos email accounts as "virtually bottomless electronic swag bags".

M2 PRESSWIRE-25 May 2004-ibas: Increases in Webmail storage heighten spectre of Intellectual Property theft, warns ibas; Data thieves eye up Google, Yahoo! and Lycos email accounts as "virtually bottomless electronic swag bags"(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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ibas is advising its clients to urgently review internal policies covering webmail usage

The computer forensics firm is acting following a spate of announcements from Google, Yahoo! and Lycos, amongst others, offering 100MB to 'virtually unlimited' Webmail storage capacity. These moves, warns ibas, significantly increases the risk of Intellectual Property (IP) theft.

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