RE: disallow freemail

["Sean Kelly" <sean () itsecurityconsultant com>]

They can also upload sensitive company data to their freemail accounts
Haji, therefore bypassing your normal email content filtering rules.

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-----Original Message-----
From: haji din [mailto:ahbh99 () yahoo com] 
Sent: 26 February 2004 09:58
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: disallow freemail

hi list,

anybody blocking or having a security policy that
disallow users from using freemail (yahoo, hotmail,
etc)? 

what are security threat that freemail poses to
corporate network?

One threat is that users will be able to download
malicious files, bypassing security measure at a mail
gateway. Any more ideas?

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