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New Jun 12, 2025
Family Safety Content Filtering
Microsoft Family Safety is a feature of Windows that allows parents to control their children’s access to apps and content in Windows. The feature is tied to the user accounts of the parent(s)...
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New Jun 10, 2025
First Look: Apple’s NEURLFilter API
At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced an interesting new API, NEURLFilter, to respond to a key challenge we’ve talked about previously: the inherent conflict between privacy and security when trying to...
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New May 27, 2025
Web Category Filtering
Since the first days of the web, users and administrators have sought to control the flow of information from the Internet to the local device. There are many different ways to implement internet...
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New May 16, 2025
Fiddler in 2025
The Fiddler Web Debugger is now old enough to drink, but I still use it pretty much every day. Fiddler hasn’t aged entirely gracefully as platforms and standards have changed over the decades,...
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New Apr 24, 2025
Attack Techniques: Fake Literally Everything! (Escrow Scam)
The team recently got a false-negative report on the SmartScreen phishing filter complaining that we fail to block firstline-trucking.com. I passed it along to our graders but then took a closer look...
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New Apr 15, 2025
Vibe-coding for security
Recently, there’s been a surge in the popularity of trojan clipboard attacks whereby the attacker convinces the user to carry their attack payload across a security boundary and compromise the...
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New Apr 7, 2025
Understanding SmartScreen and Network Protection
The vast majority of cyberthreats arrive via one of two related sources: That means that by combining network-level sensors and throttles with threat intelligence (about attacker sites), security...
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New Apr 7, 2025
A Solid 10K
After last year’s disappointing showing at the Capitol 10K, I wanted to do better this time around. We left the house at 6:47; traffic was light and we pulled into my regular parking spot at...
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New Apr 1, 2025
Defensive Technology: Exploit Protection
Over the last several decades, the Windows team has added a stream of additional security mitigation features to the platform to help application developers harden their applications against exploit....
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New Mar 31, 2025
Defensive Technology: Windows Filtering Platform
Last November, I wrote a post about the basics of security software. In that post, I laid out how security software is composed of sensors and throttles controlled by threat intelligence. In...