Tag: Internet Explorer

June 15, 2022

Microsoft’s legacy Internet Explorer web browser, which roamed the internet for nearly 27 years, has been officially retired as of June 15. Version 11 of the browser is no longer supported, Microsoft announced. During the next few months, opening Internet […]

September 15, 2021

Microsoft has pushed fixes for a total of 66 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), three critical and one moderate in severity, as well as the previously disclosed CVE-2021-40444 zero-day, in its September 2021 Patch Tuesday update. CVE-2021-40444 is a remote […]

September 10, 2021

New details about the recent MSHTML zero-day vulnerability have further spooked cybersecurity researchers, after having seen exploits in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444, Microsoft recently disclosed the vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s browser engine Trident, also known as MSHTML, which helps […]

August 19, 2021

Microsoft has taken the final steps to retire defunct web browser Internet Explorer (IE), rounding out the phased termination. First released in August last year, the Internet Explorer retirement roadmap consisted of a number of stages, with support for the […]

May 21, 2021

When the next version of WordPress is released later this year, the popular content management system (CMS) will no longer support Internet Explorer according to a new post on WordPress.org. First released over seven years ago, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) […]

May 19, 2021

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. The aging web browser has largely been unused by most consumers for years, but Microsoft is putting the final nail in the Internet Explorer coffin on June […]

February 12, 2020

Microsoft has released 99 security fixes, 12 flagged as critical, in its February Patch Tuesday update, among them a critical vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web browser that is known to have already been exploited in the wild. First disclosed […]

September 24, 2019

Yesterday, Microsoft published CVE-2019-1367, a remote code execution vulnerability that exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability, discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Project Zero Threat Analysis Group, is present […]

April 24, 2018

If you still use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, then be aware that there’s reportedly a major hole in the browser which could be an entry point for malware. Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 found the zero-day exploit which as yet remains […]

January 6, 2016

Microsoft has officially announced it will cease to support Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 from January 12. The company will issue a Windows update KB3123303, which will place a prompt box in the three browsers urging people to update […]

December 9, 2015

We’re all anxiously awaiting the day that Windows 10’s new Edge browser becomes usable. That hasn’t happened yet, but it will some day next year. Microsoft Edge should represent a huge improvement in browser security, particularly when compared with the […]

August 21, 2015

A company called Gadget Lab has produced a very interesting infographic that reveals which mobile browsers are used the most in various countries. For example, in the U.S. it might not be surprising to learn that Safari is responsible for […]

March 31, 2015

Microsoft is releasing a preview of its Internet Explorer successor, Project Spartan, today. The new browser, which will be the default web experience in Windows 10, is part of an update to the PC Windows 10 preview. Microsoft promised faster […]

March 25, 2015

Microsoft announced a major change to its browser strategy today: only Project Spartan, the company’s new browser shipping on all Windows 10 devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs, and so on), will feature the company’s new rendering engine. Internet Explorer will still […]