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Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 23 2018, @12:03PM   
from the go-phish dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow8317

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.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-ports-anti-phishing-technology-to-google-chrome-extension/

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Original Submission

• Hah. (Score: 5, Insightful) by Virindi on Monday April 23 2018, @12:58PM

  by Virindi (3484) on Monday April 23 2018, @12:58PM (#670717)

  Hah, this line really got me:

  Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs.

  Translation:

  Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now automatically send a list of every site they visit to TWO shady big companies rather than just one.

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