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Wrapping Up Last Week: Google Safe Browsing, Open Source, BrowsAlyzer 3.0.6

March 22, 2023 - 8:48 am

Google’s Safe Browsing helps to identify and stop malicious URLs. But if it is just using the Lookup API part of it, it also transmits every tested URL, which could be regarded as legit, but potentially unwanted, tracking. There’s another mode that downloads some data and only verifies URLs that are very likely bad online.

While discussing it in Team Spybot recently, we decided to add Safe Browsing to BrowsAlyzer to be able to further test and classify URLs. We just uploaded the preview version 3.0.6 that includes this feature. Right now working on single URLs when selecting them, and using the Lookup API, but this is going to emerge into a full-scale search of all URLs BrowsAlyzer detects.

Inspired on a discussion on Reddit about Open Source, we also decided to release our code to access the Safe Browsing API as open source. We already have a few repositories open sources, but those are related to the development environment we use. So these three are our first repositories of code actually used in our products directly.

Google Analytics

September 2, 2019 - 3:37 pm

Google Analytics is an analytics platform used by many mobile and desktop apps. It has been added because we encountered apps that do not inform the user about its use.... continue reading

Google Chrome Telemetry

September 5, 2018 - 12:51 pm

Google Chrome can send anonymous (and non-anonymous) usage statistics and crashed-related data to Google. Quoting Google, they include: These reports usually won’t include any personal information about you, but they... continue reading

Pushwoosh Hosts

June 26, 2023 - 2:45 pm

Pushwoosh hit the press as russian software, disguised as American software, used e.g. by the army. Full Reuters article here. The background seems to be that the Delaware company did... continue reading

Mozilla Firefox Safe Browsing

January 30, 2023 - 4:33 pm

Firefox’ Phishing Protection, based on Googles Safe Browsing, checks URLs against a list of known bad URLs. For this feature, a list of bad URLs is regularly downloaded from Googles... continue reading

TrendMicro Telemetry

June 29, 2022 - 12:21 pm

Trend Micro Maximum Security is an antivirus application that uses tracking of user interactions. Trend Micro is open about the data it collects. Its installer has a page dedicated to... continue reading