Google Chrome 103.0.5060.114 has just been released, addressing a fourth zero day exploit this year which, is apparently in-the-wild. No doubt edge, brave vivaldi and opera will follow suit very soon.
With Chromium based edge now part of the furniture in Win10 21H2, there are those who have not used edge at all which lays dormant and out-of-date without any activation.
Isn’t this a potential security concern in itself that can be bypassed? (now or even in the future)
Surely Microsoft’s AI, diagnostics and telemetry should be able to distinguish the need whether activated or not to update the ‘browser’ ? (the most important portal to the world-wild-web)
My suggestion would be to have a dedicated additional ‘Edge Update‘ button within the security settings of Win10/11 that temporarily over-rides any settings to update accordingly whether activated or not.
IMHO, keeping infront of miscreants is better than chasing/ fixing their clusters, now and in the future. These h@cking teams are getting smarter by the week, just look at the reports on bleeping computer and how they find a way in.
my tuppence..
