Re: Securing email by inhibiting urls

[Raphael Rivera <rafinous () yahoo com>]

Chris,

Have you all tried barracuda spam firewall? 

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On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:46 PM, "Chris" <chughes () l8c com> 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.
>
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> 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: joe () s0medomain com or 
> j0e () somedomain com etc).
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> 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.
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> Any products that do this or ideas on a solution?
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> Thanks
>
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