It turns out that the security level in the browser from the American company head and shoulders above the rest of the competition.
The company NSS Labs this week released two reports on security in web browsers on personal computers. We are talking about opposition to phishing attacks and social engineering techniques. Considered the relative security of multiple browsers.
Traditional attacks exploit vulnerabilities and exploits in operating systems and applications. Because the developers regularly close the vulnerability, attackers switch to users trying to trick them. Such attacks to confront the most difficult.
In this case, the level of security the operating system does not play a role, whether open or closed Windows 10 platforms, like Windows 10, Chrome OS’s. The entire burden falls on the browser which should block phishing addresses when an attempt to follow them.
The researchers analyzed 36120 access to 1136 suspicious locations over 23 days. It was found that the level of protection of Edge is significantly higher than that of Chrome and Firefox. Edge blocked 92.3% of phishing addresses against 74,06% and 61,1% in Chrome and Firefox respectively. Also Edge responds faster to new phishing addresses the level of protection is 81,8% vs. 58,6% and 50.7% in Chrome and Firefox.
Chrome one browser is the most popular and offers more functionality, but that doesn’t mean he’s better than the competition on all parameters. Previously, Microsoft itself has repeatedly described the Edge browser as the most energy efficient, which is important on laptops and tablets.
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