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Microsoft has tweaked the Microsoft Edge sleeping tabs feature to improve the web browser's overall responsiveness and performance. "Beginning in Microsoft Edge 100, we've updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page to now go to sleep," the Microsoft Edge Team said earlier this week.
Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have been updated to patch a security flaw an exploit for which is said to be in the wild. Chromium is at the heart of Google Chrome as well as Microsoft Edge.
The emergence of a market for security service edge solutions reflects the necessity for organisations with hybrid workforces to apply consistent security from the cloud. This Magic Quadrant report will help you identify suitable vendors to access to the web, cloud services and private applications safely and securely.
AT&T details edge computing and the security risks that you should be concerned about. AT&T has released its annual Cybersecurity Insights Report, with several key takeaways from 2021 and predictions for the year ahead. Edge computing is a key focus of the report, as AT&T goes into detail about the state of edge, as well as the company outlining the risks and security based on survey data and interviews of over 1,500 IT executives.
Worldwide spending on edge computing is expected to be $176 billion in 2022, an increase of 14.8% over 2021. Enterprise and service provider spending on hardware, software, and services for edge solutions is forecast to sustain this pace of growth through 2025 when spending will reach nearly $274 billion, according to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Edge Spending Guide.
Microsoft Edge has added a new feature to the Beta channel that will mitigate future in-the-wild exploitation of unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. "This feature is a huge step forward because it lets us mitigate unforeseen active zero days," Microsoft explains.
These investments empower organizations to provision enterprise workloads at edge locations in support of innovative edge use cases. Accordingly, a symbiotic edge and core to workload relationship is needed to enable workloads based at the core that support the edge, workloads based at the edge that support the edge, and workloads at the edge that support the core.
Organizations usually manage the security of data, applications and edge computing from disparate technologies and across different teams. Increasingly, sophisticated attacks start at the edge or application layers and move laterally to the data layer without detection.
Microsoft Edge is now displaying in-browser alerts that discourage users from downloading Google Chrome by bashing the popular browser. A few weeks later, Google began telling Microsoft Edge users to switch to Chrome to use browser extensions more securely.
A newly discovered botnet capable of staging distributed denial-of-service attacks targeted unpatched Ribbon Communications EdgeMarc appliances belonging to telecom service provider AT&T by exploiting a four-year-old flaw in the network appliances. Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360's Netlab network security division, which detected the botnet first on October 27, 2021, called it EwDoor, noting it observed 5,700 compromised IP addresses located in the U.S. during a brief three-hour window.