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Microsoft has released a Chrome extension named "Windows Defender Browser Protection" that ports Windows Defender's —and inherently Edge's— anti-phishing technology to Google Chrome.
[...] Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs. The SmartScreen API isn't as known as Google's more famous Safe Browsing API, but works in the same way, and possibly even better.
An NSS Labs benchmark revealed that Edge (with its SmartScreen API) caught 99 percent of all phishing URLs thrown at it during a test last year, while Chrome only detected 87 percent of the malicious links users accessed.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @12:47PM (1 child)
In other news, Typhoid Mary has announced that she has a new treatment for pimples.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @09:17PM
"You got your MICROS~1 in my GOOG."
...inspired by an old TV commercial [youtube.com] about candy. [google.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Virindi on Monday April 23 2018, @12:58PM
Hah, this line really got me:
Translation:
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 23 2018, @01:03PM (4 children)
Satya, if you're listening -- Microsoft, if you're listening -- there’s nobody like you in the world, in the world. We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation. Making our Internet safe by putting your "extension" into the Google technology. Sounds dirty, right? It's not dirty. It's the opposite. It protects. And anything we can do to help this go along, and we’re going to be there for you.
We're opening up the trade, we’re going to make it a lot easier for you to trade cross borders. If you have any ideas on that, that would be great because there are a lot of border restrictions, there are a lot of border problems. You probably have less of a problem than some companies. Some companies have massive problems, but we’re going to solve those problems.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @01:14PM
Chrome extensions to insert/remove Trump references [dailydot.com] as you browse
(Score: 2) by Virindi on Monday April 23 2018, @01:22PM
Much better! :D
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday April 23 2018, @01:32PM (1 child)
It's opt-in, Don.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday April 23 2018, @08:30PM
As with women, he doesn't understand "Opt-in".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 23 2018, @09:11PM (1 child)
Seriously, at this point, I trust anything from MS about as far as I can throw the bathtub, and *that* is cemented to the freaking floor. And, as someone else above pointed out, we don't know but that what this thing is *really* doing is slurping your user data to send back to Redmond. No thanks.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Monday April 23 2018, @09:37PM
It is making you safet! All your browsing can now be certified and verified and all the sites you visit can now be checked for compliance.
All those words must make you feel safer (also: these days, privacy is for those who don't use the internet)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex