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Microsoft Sandboxes Windows Defender
As the infosec community talked about potential cyber attacks leveraging vulnerabilities in antivirus products, Microsoft took notes and started to work on a solution. The company announced that its Windows Defender can run in a sandbox.
- October 29, 2018
- 06:37 AM
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Windows 10 Enterprise Getting "InPrivate Desktop" Sandboxed Execution Feature
A recent Windows 10 Insider Feedback Hub quest revealed that Microsoft is developing a new throwaway sandboxed desktop feature called "InPrivate Desktop". This feature will allow administrators to run untrusted executables in a secure sandbox without fear that it can make any changes to the operating system or system's files.
- August 08, 2018
- 10:53 AM
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Here's How to Enable Chrome "Strict Site Isolation" Experimental Security Mode
Google Chrome 63, which shipped yesterday evening, arrived with a new experimental feature called Strict Site Isolation that according to Google engineers is an additional security layer on top of Chrome's built-in sandboxing technology.
- December 07, 2017
- 04:58 PM
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Firefox 57 Brings Better Sandboxing on Linux
Firefox 57, set to be released tomorrow, will ship with improvements to the browser's sandbox security feature for Linux users.
- November 13, 2017
- 10:03 AM
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Recently Patched Flash Bug Can Leak Windows Credentials
Earlier this week, Adobe patched a vulnerability in Flash Player that allows an attacker to use malicious Flash files to leak Windows credentials.
- August 11, 2017
- 01:30 AM
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Researchers Put Windows Defender in a Sandbox to Show Microsoft How It's Done
Software experts from Trail of Bits — a well-known security R&D company — have sandboxed Windows Defender, the default antivirus solution that ships with recent Windows editions.
- August 06, 2017
- 09:50 AM
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