#SmartScreen

2025-05-04

So Microsoft #SmartScreen has started blocking our #Peertube videos for participants on our Sterling College course '#SurvivingTheFuture: #APathThroughTumultuousTimes' (survivingthefuture.darkoptimis )

In this case, a harmless self-hosted video of our session with #DavidAbram.

Is this part of the tech bros making life difficult for those trying to use alternatives to their established default providers (YouTube, in this case) or is there some more innocent explanation?

#TheDevilIsInTheDefault

A screenshot of a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning stating that "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has blocked this unsafe content", along with details of the Peertube video in question.
2025-03-26

@SecurityWriter Individual hobbyists who develop games and other programs for Windows often ask the user to bypass SmartScreen because the dev can't afford a commercial code signing certificate. Is that also just like "disable their security software"?

#WindowsDefender #SmartScreen #CodeSigning #CARacket

valentijn scholtenvalentijn@infosec.exchange
2025-01-20

Does anyone here have any contacts at either @netcraft or the Microsoft Edge/Smartscreen team?

Someone in my network had their domain incorrectly marked as a phishing domain by Netcraft. Netcraft acknowledged their mistake, but refuse to help recover/clear the domain at Microsoft and other downstream parties using the Netcraft feeds.

This has been ongoing for 5 days now. #netcraft #smartscreen

netcraft warning
2024-11-14

Lilbits: GOG brings old games to new PCs, VMWare goes free(er), Apple smart screen leaked, and more

Game Platform GOG no longer goes by the name Good Old Games, since GOG now offers new titles as well. But GOG hasn’t exactly given up on its roots. Today the company announced the GOG Preservation Program, an initiative that helps ensure old games are compatible with current and future PCs.

In other tech news from around the web, VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are now free for commercial use (they went free for personal use earlier this year), there’s a new build of Ubuntu Touch available, a Chinese company claims its ePaper display has a much higher refresh rate than E Ink color screens, Apple is said to be working on a six inch smart display designed to be wall mounted, an Xbox handheld may be in the works… and Amazon’s Fire TV 4K Max is on sale for its lowest price to date.

The GOG Preservation Program Makes Games Live Forever [GOG]

Game platform GOG has announced a program where the company will “commit our own resources to maintaining” compatibility of classic games with “modern and future systems.” In other words, games with a GOG preserved program that were designed for older hardware and operating systems should not only run on a recent PC, but will also be updated to work with “future popular PC configurations.” Like all games available from GOG, preserved titles will be offered DRM-free, and there are offline installers so that you can install and run games even if GOG goes out of business. About 100 “preserved” games are available so far.

Despite brutal price hikes on many products, VMWare makes Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro free for all users [Tom’s Hardware]

After announcing earlier this year that VMWare Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro virtualization apps were free for personal use, Broadcomm has now made those applications free for commercial use as well. Existing customers will continue to get enterprise support until their commercial contract expires, but moving forward it looks like the company will offer these apps are a free alternative to its premium, subscription-based cloud services that have seen recent price hikes.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Focal Release [UBPorts]

Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-6 is now rolling out for supported phones and tablets with wireless display improvements, Fairphone 5 support, and more. But the anticipated VoLTE support has been postponed.

Guangzhou Aoyi launches ultra-fast color e-paper display [ITHome]

A Chinese company called Aoyi is showing off a color ePaper display that it says delivers higher refresh rates and better color gradient representation than E Ink. But a demo video shows that video still looks shaky, so it’s not quite an LCD/OLED replacement.

Apple’s Next Device Is an AI Wall Tablet for Home Control, Siri and Video Calls [Bloomberg]

Apple is apparently making another play for the smart home/smart speaker market with a new device that’s code-named J490. It’s expected to be a small display with an integrated camera, speakers, and battery. It supports touchscreen controls, but also voice interaction handled by Siri and Apple Intelligence.

An Xbox handheld is still at least a few years away [Bloomberg]

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spenser says the Xbox team is looking at developing a handheld, but it’s at least a few years away. Based on this article, I think it’s more reasonable to say Microsoft is in the exploratory phase than to say that the company is actively building an Xbox handheld though.

Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale for $33 [Amazon]

This is the lowest price to date for Amazon’s most powerful media streaming stick to date. While the entire Fire TV lineup is on sale right now, this is the only model in a stick form factor to support WiFi 6E. 

Keep up on the latest headlines by following Liliputing on Bluesky or @bradlinder@fosstodon.org on Mastodon. You can also follow Liliputing on ThreadsFacebook, and X.

#amazonFireTvStick4kMax #aoyi #apple #epaper #fireTvStick4kMax #gog #gogPreservationProgram #j490 #leaks #lilbits #microsoft #microsoftGaming #smartDisplay #smartScreen #ubuntuTouch #vmware #xbox #xboxHandheld

Jote 🏳️‍🌈 :verified_gay:ailnoth@social.plux.wtf
2024-09-23

Wow.... Somebody does not me to learn about owl-license.org from my #work computer....

#smartscreen #wtf

The image shows a message from Microsoft Defender SmartScreen with the heading: "This content is blocked by your organization." It says that the resource or content hosted by owl-license.org is not allowed due to organizational restrictions. It suggests that the user contact their administrator or visit a support page to understand why this block is in place. There's a button labeled "Go back" for the user to navigate away from the blocked page.
2024-08-06

MS so: cooles Feature in Windows: #SmartScreen und in Win 11 nennen wir es Smart App Control - super safe. Aber: Voller Designfehler und Bugs, eine simple .lnk-Datei reicht, um das Zeug zu umgehen. Wird seit 2018 ausgenutzt.

borncity.com/blog/2024/08/06/s

Anonymous 🐈️🐾☕🍵🏴🇵🇸 :af:youranonriots@kolektiva.social
2024-07-28

Alert for #Windows users! A large-scale stealer campaign is targeting Windows systems by exploiting a #SmartScreen vulnerability to steal crypto, browser, messenger, and other data.

#CyberSecurity #Vulnerability #Microsoft hackread.com/windows-smartscre

2024-07-12

Can anyone tell me why "App & browser control" is off by default in Windows Security? #WindowsSecurity #SmartScreen

2024-04-19

Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Windows Installer, Microsoft Smart Screen and Azure

https://cdn.marcin-lis.pl/2024/03/th-2673580170.jpg

This time we have a few vulnerabilities from Google and Microsoft:

Google Chrome V8 Enum Cache Out-Of-Bounds Read Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft Edge DOMArrayBuffer Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Google Chrome WASM Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft […]

#azure #bug #chrome #cve #edge #exploit #installer #smartScreen #Windows

https://marcin-lis.pl/security/cve/vulnerabilities-in-google-chrome-microsoft-edge-windows-installer-microsoft-smart-screen-and-azure/

Microsoft logi
2024-04-11

Microsoft has released a significant update to address two critical zero-day vulnerabilities, along with 147 other security issues. The first vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-26234, was discovered in December 2023 by cybersecurity firm Sophos. It involves a malicious executable file signed by a Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher (WHCP) certificate, linked to a software called LaiXi Android Screen Mirroring. This vulnerability acts as a backdoor, allowing for network traffic interception and monitoring. It has been added to Microsoft's revocation list, but there are indications it was exploited as early as January 2023.

The second vulnerability, CVE-2024-29988, is an exploitation of an incomplete security patch applied to the CVE-2024-21412 flaw. It uses a unique file to bypass Microsoft Defender Smartscreen security. Microsoft explains that an attacker would need to trick a user into launching malicious files using a launcher application that hides the user interface. This vulnerability has been observed in the wild, with Microsoft classifying it as "Exploitation More Likely."

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guid

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guid

#cybersecurity #microsoft #vulnerability #zeroday #patch #cve #whcp #laixi #backdoor #microsoftdefender #smartscreen #sophos

2023-07-31

Microsoft #Defender #SmartScreen is a component in Microsoft Edge that helps protect you while browsing the web. Do you have Defender SmartScreen active and configured?

SmartScreen protects against #phishing, #malware, potentially unwanted applications (#PUA), exploits (a page targeting browser vulnerabilities) and malwaretising (a benign page hosting a malicious advertisement).

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen should be configured centrally, for example, through Microsoft Intune via the Device Configuration profile, where you can use both the Settings Catalog and Administrative templates.

If you don't have Microsoft Defender SmartScreen configured yet, be sure to fix it as soon as possible! And if you want to test SmartScreen's behavior on your computer, you can use the test site directly from Microsoft to do so. demo.smartscreen.msft.net/

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen configuration in Microsoft Intune
2023-04-13

Anybody else having #smartscreen latency/performance issues? We see a lot of 503 service unavailable errors for europe.smartscreen.microsoft.com #defender #MDE

Andrea Fortuna :verified:andreafortuna@mastodon.uno
2023-03-15

#Microsoft has release patches for two actively exploited #zeroday vulnerabilities: a Critical elevation of privilege within #Outlook (CVE-2023-23397) and a Moderate security feature bypass within #Windows #SmartScreen (CVE-2023-24880) #patchtuesday #security

andreafortuna.org/2023/03/15/m

2023-03-15

Microsoft fixes two 0-days on Patch Tuesday – update now! - An email you haven't even looked at yet could be used to trick your mail server into help... nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/ #vulnerability #patchtuesday #smartscreen #microsoft #windows #exploit #outlook #zeroday #ntlmv2 #0day #motw

Geekmaster 👽:system76:Geekmaster@ioc.exchange
2023-03-14

#Magniber #ransomware actors used a variant of #Microsoft #SmartScreen #bypass

Financially motivated threat actors used an unpatched security bypass to deliver ransomware without any security warnings

blog.google/threat-analysis-gr

Sean Whalen 👨🏼‍🦼🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🕊️seanthegeek@infosec.exchange
2023-01-12

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is currently flagging proton.me as a malicious website. The only cause I can think of is a malicious file being publicly hosted on Proton Drive. If Proton Drive is being abused to host something malicious, flag the URL, not the whole domain. They wouldn't do this for Google Drive, Dropbox, or especially OneDrive. Do better, Microsoft. False positive reported.

#Microsoft #Proton #ProtonMail #MicrosoftDefenderSmartScreen #SmartScreen #MicrosoftEdge #MicrosoftDefender #InfoSec #Cybersecurity #Phishing

A screenshot of a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning on Microsoft Edge calling proton.me unsafe

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