According to Statcounter, 67 percent of desktop users worldwide use Chrome, under 10 percent use Safari, and just over nine percent use Edge. The browser’s retirement marks the end of an era, even if it won’t affect many consumers. Eventually, Internet Explorer is set to be permanently disabled as part of a future Windows update. In the coming months, users trying to access Internet Explorer will be directed to Microsoft Edge, the company’s modern Chronium-based browser designed to challenge Google Chrome. The legacy of Internet Explorer will end today on 16 June 2022 (GMT+8), with support officially withdrawn for IE11 as well. Without the update, hackers could launch attacks that give them full control over your computer, showcasing how severe this security risk is.It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft is putting its long-running browser to rest after 26 long years. Microsoft recommends updating your browser as soon as possible, as there’s a chance this bug is already impacting PCs. Google patched the same bug recently and has been keeping quiet about details of the attack to allow others to make similar fixes, since Chromium is quite a popular codebase. Microsoft uses the same base code for the Edge browser, meaning bugs that affect one often plague the other.

While every security update should be installed promptly, this one is a bit more urgent because the attack is “in the wild” already, meaning that hackers are already taking advantage of this vulnerability to breach security.ĭesignated CVE-2022-2294, this vulnerability was actually a flaw with the Chromium project, the open-source code that Google’s Chrome browser is built upon. Microsoft just released an Edge browser update that patches a dangerous flaw that could allow a cleverly designed attack to execute arbitrary code.

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