Re: Securing email by inhibiting urls
Kurt Buff <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:31:46 -0700
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mimedefang comes to mind. http://mimedefang.org On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:46, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > A company I work for has been having great difficulty in securing against > email attacks. So far we have disabled access to webmail, implemented > rules and processes to block freemail services like hotmail etc until the > sender registers the address and of course a spam filter (BrightMail). > Attachment filtering is pretty strict as well. > > > > The threat that presents the biggest challenge is url links in emails. The > common method of attack is an email from somedomain.com where they change > one character or otherwise make the address look valid (ie: > [email protected] or [email protected] etc). > > > > I was looking for a way to spot and block hyperlinks but it looks like the > only option I have is to filter on these and send them to a spam bin. I’d > rather yank the offending hyperlink and replace it with a message of some > sort. Unfortunately BrightMail doesn’t offer that capability. > > > > Any products that do this or ideas on a solution? > > > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > firewall-wizards mailing list > [email protected] > https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards > > _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list [email protected] https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards