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Google is making an important change to Chrome on Windows. The browser will no longer run with administrator privileges by default. This change is designed with the intent to protect users from potentially malicious threats. As Bleeping Computer explains, when Chrome runs with administrator rights, any file that you download can pose a security risk. What that means is a malicious file that a user downloads could run with full system access, and in turn jeopardize the operating system. Microsoft Edge has a feature which was introduced in 2019 that prevents it from launching with elevated privileges. Edge displays a...

Microsoft’s services will drop support for IE11 in a year Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. In exactly a year, on August 17th, 2021, Internet Explorer 11 will no longer be supported for Microsoft’s online services like Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more. Microsoft is also ending support for Internet Explorer 11 with the Microsoft Teams web app later this year, with support ending on November 30th.While it’s still going to take some time to pry enterprise users of Internet Explorer 11 away, Microsoft is hoping that the new...

An independent security researcher claims to have uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft Edge.The issue enables any website to identify a user by his username from another website, according to Ariel Zelivansky. More specifically the researcher alleges that Edge exposes the URL of any Fetch response, in contradiction to the specification. This is a problem because it's possible to identify users by crafting a Fetch request to a URL that will redirect to a URL with the user's username (e.g. https://facebook.com/me to https://facebook.com/username).Zelivansky approached Microsoft but the software giant dismissed the issue. El Reg requested a comment only to be...