| Title | Microsoft Ports Anti-Phishing Technology to Google Chrome Extension | |
| Date | Monday April 23 2018, @12:03PM | |
| Author | Fnord666 | |
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| from the go-phish dept. | ||
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.
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