Outsmarting social engineering threats with SmartScreen

I wanted to talk about a new user safety feature we just introduced in Wave 4: SmartScreen for URLs This safety feature is another step Windows Live is taking to protect you from socially engineered attacks and account abuse. This abuse is an industry-wide problem, and we've seen a significant uptick in these types of attacks within the context of social networks over the past couple years (details in Microsoft SIR V8, p.

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