Method and apparatus for user protection from external e-mail attack
AssigneePrekari, Inc.
InventorsDeepak Kumar, Anshu Sharma
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Abstract
A method and apparatus are described for user protection from external e-mail attack. Some embodiments pertain to receiving an e-mail, detecting a suspicious element in the e-mail, disabling the suspicious element of the e-mail, flagging the suspicious element of the e-mail, displaying the e-mail in an e-mail user interface with the disabled element and the flag, receiving a user command to enable the disabled element of the displayed e-mail, and enabling the disabled element.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving an e-mail at an e-mail client, the e-mail having an addressee, the e-mail client having an internet browser user interface that is operable by and accessible to the addressee;
- receiving a detection of a suspicious element in the e-mail from a detection system;
- disabling the suspicious element of the e-mail using a document object model of the internet browser to identify and lock the suspicious element in the internet browser using a browser extension;
- flagging the suspicious element of the e-mail as suspicious using the document object model to identify and flag the element;
- and
- displaying the e-mail in the e-mail internet browser user interface with the disabled suspicious element and the flag;
- receiving a user command to enable the disabled suspicious element at the internet browser user interface;
- enabling the disabled suspicious element at the internet browser user interface in response to the received user command.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- receiving an e-mail at an e-mail client, the e-mail having an addressee, the e-mail client having an internet browser user interface that is operable by and accessible to the addressee;
- receiving a detection of a suspicious element in the e-mail from a detection system;
- disabling the suspicious element of the e-mail using a document object model of the internet browser to identify and lock the suspicious element in the internet browser using a browser extension;
- flagging the suspicious element of the e-mail as suspicious using the document object model to identify and flag the element;
- displaying the e-mail in the e-mail internet browser user interface with the disabled suspicious element and the flag;
- receiving a user command to enable the disabled suspicious element at the internet browser user interface;
- enabling the disabled suspicious element at the internet browser user interface in response to the received user command.
An apparatus comprising:
- a communications interface to receive an e-mail from an e-mail server and to receive a detection of a suspicious element in the e-mail from a detection system, the e-mail having an addressee;
- a processor to disable the suspicious element by identifying and locking the suspicious element of the e-mail using a document object model of an internet browser using a browser extension, to flag the suspicious element of the e-mail as suspicious using the document object model and to flag the e-mail as suspicious in response to receiving the detection;
- and
- a user interface using the internet browser operable by and accessible to the addressee as the user to display the e-mail in a mailbox view of the user interface, to display the e-mail in an e-mail view of the user interface with the disabled suspicious element and the flag, and to receive a user command to enable the disabled suspicious element and
- wherein the processor is further to enable the disabled suspicious element in response to the received user command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.