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Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 23 2018, @12:03PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 23 2018, @01:03PM (4 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 23 2018, @01:03PM (#670720) Homepage Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @01:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2018, @01:14PM (#670723)

    Chrome extensions to insert/remove Trump references [dailydot.com] as you browse

  • (Score: 2) by Virindi on Monday April 23 2018, @01:22PM

    by Virindi (3484) on Monday April 23 2018, @01:22PM (#670724)

    Much better! :D

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday April 23 2018, @01:32PM (1 child)

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday April 23 2018, @01:32PM (#670729)

    Making our Internet safe by putting your "extension" into the Google technology.

    It's opt-in, Don.

    • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday April 23 2018, @08:30PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday April 23 2018, @08:30PM (#670869)

      As with women, he doesn't understand "Opt-in".