The Microsoft Edge browser makes use of a service called Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to help protect users from phishing websites and malicious downloads. The SmartScreen service integrates with a Microsoft threat intelligence service running in the cloud to quickly block discovered threats. As I explained last year, the SmartScreen service also helps reduce spurious securityContinue reading “Capturing Logs for Debugging SmartScreen”
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HTTPS Goofs: Forgetting the Bare Domain
As I mentioned, the top failure of HTTPS is failing to use it, and that’s particularly common in in-bound links sent via email, in newsletters, and the like. Unfortunately, there’s another common case, whereby the user simply types your bare domain name (example.com) in the browser’s address bar without specifying https:// first. For decades, manyContinue reading “HTTPS Goofs: Forgetting the Bare Domain”
Attack Techniques: Notification Spam
A colleague recently saw the following popups when using their computer: Because they seemed to come from nowhere in particular, they seemed credible– either Windows itself had detected a virus, or perhaps their computer was infected with malware and it caused the popups? The reality is more mundane and more much more common. These areContinue reading “Attack Techniques: Notification Spam”
Edge’s Super-Res Image Enhancement
One interesting feature that the Edge team is experimenting with this summer is called “SuperRes” or “Enhance Images.” This feature allows Microsoft Edge to use a Microsoft-built AI/ML service to enhance the quality of images shown within the browser. You can learn more about how the images are enhanced (and see some examples) in theContinue reading “Edge’s Super-Res Image Enhancement”
QuickFix: Trivial Chrome Extensions
Almost a decade before I released the first version of Fiddler, I started work on my first app that survives to this day, SlickRun. SlickRun is a floating command line that can launch any app on your PC, as well as launching web applications and performing other simple and useful features, like showing battery, CPUContinue reading “QuickFix: Trivial Chrome Extensions”
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