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Research: Safe Browsing API working badly in Chrome

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
14 years ago2,373 views

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=14BEC61F-1A64-6A71-CE0A33CEF59E317C

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"Google Chrome's overall catch rate of 26% was below average," the "Web Browser Security: Phishing Comparison Comparative Results" report concludes. "We expected better results given the fanfare about Google's SafeBrowsing initiative . Additionally, a third-party (Firefox) was able to utilize Google API to achieve significantly better protection than Google's own browser."
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Research paper (.pdf):
http://nsslabs.com/browser-security-malware-3Q2009

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

I wouldn't trust an organization funded by Microsoft to deliver unbiased reports. The report concluded that IE8 has the best anti-malware engine.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/microsoft-sponsors-two-nss-reports-ie8-is-the-most-secure.ars

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Wouldn't be <i>that</i> suprised if IE is safest as far as these kind of downloads go, after all its their own system they need to protect (windows). Still the only debateable thing is how they check whether a link is malicious "On an ongoing basis NSS Labs collects web-based threats from a variety of sources, including partners and our own
servers. Potential threats are vetted algorithmically before being inserted into our test queue." . If these sources use a comparable technique as microsoft than it might be quite logical.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

[put at-character here]Ionut:
I missed to include this additional link:
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200912/3268/Can-you-trust-the-NSS-Labs-report-touting-the-benefits-of-IE8

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

The quality of news stories about the research varies a lot, but the fact that M$ sponsored the research remains...

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