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Microsoft has removed Microsoft Defender SmartScreen from Internet Explorer and from IE Mode on Windows 11, a change announced in a Microsoft support bulletin (KB5071357) that takes effect with the latest Windows updates and refocuses SmartScreen protections on modern surfaces such as Microsoft...

Microsoft has deprecated Microsoft Defender SmartScreen inside Internet Explorer and IE Mode on Windows 11, removing in-process SmartScreen URL and download checks from the legacy IE runtime while preserving platform-level protections such as the Windows Shell SmartScreen and Mark‑of‑the‑Web...

Microsoft Edge is rolling out a major upgrade to its on-device anti-scam defenses: the browser’s Scareware blocker is now broadly available on qualifying Windows and macOS devices, and Edge 142 introduces a new scareware sensor that can notify Microsoft Defender SmartScreen in near real time...

Microsoft’s security database lists a reportable entry for a Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) remote code execution concern under the label CVE‑2025‑60711, but authoritative public technical details for that specific identifier are currently scarce or not published in vendor pages accessible...

Chromium’s V8 type‑confusion entry for CVE‑2025‑12428 appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Edge is built on Chromium — the entry tells customers whether Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) has ingested the upstream fix and is therefore no longer vulnerable. Background / Overview...

Chromium’s CVE‑2025‑12430 — an object lifecycle issue in Media — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes Chromium open‑source code; the entry exists to tell Edge users and administrators whether Microsoft has ingested the upstream Chromium...

Chromium’s V8 vulnerability CVE‑2025‑12433 — described upstream as an “inappropriate implementation in V8” — is being tracked in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide so Edge administrators and users can confidently know when Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) has ingested the upstream Chromium fix and...

Chrome’s CVE for a “policy bypass in Extensions” appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes Chromium’s open‑source engine, and Microsoft uses the guide to declare when its downstream Edge builds have ingested the upstream Chromium fix — the SUG entry is...

Chromium’s recent CVE-2025-12438 — a use‑after‑free in Ozone — has been recorded in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes Chromium’s open‑source engine; the entry is Microsoft’s way of telling Edge customers whether their installed Edge build is still...

Chromium’s CVE-2025-12437 — a reported use‑after‑free in the PageInfo component — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes upstream Chromium code; Microsoft records the Chromium CVE in the guide to tell Edge customers the exact point at which...

The Chromium CVE labeled CVE‑2025‑12441 — an out‑of‑bounds read in the V8 JavaScript engine — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (the Chromium‑based browser) consumes upstream Chromium open‑source code; the Security Update Guide entry exists to tell Edge users...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide listing a Chromium-assigned CVE is simply the downstream status announcement that Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) has ingested the upstream Chromium fix and shipped an Edge build that is no longer vulnerable; in practical terms, the Security Update Guide (SUG)...

Chromium’s CVE‑2025‑12445 — described as a policy bypass in Extensions — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes Chromium open‑source code; the Security Update Guide entry is Microsoft’s downstream signal that the patched Chromium change has...

A sweeping Microsoft Azure outage on the morning of October 29 knocked numerous customer‑facing services offline and interrupted airline operations worldwide, briefly taking down Alaska Airlines’ and Hawaiian Airlines’ websites and mobile apps, contributing to widespread check‑in failures and...

A routine October Patch Tuesday turned into a developer crisis, a desktop AI “supercomputer” sold out in hours, and a supply‑chain style breach at a major networking vendor triggered an emergency federal alert — three separate incidents that together reveal how fragile modern PC, AI, and network...

The Chromium-assigned vulnerability CVE-2025-11460 — a use-after-free in the Storage component — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) consumes Chromium’s open-source engine; the Security Update Guide entry is Microsoft’s downstream signal that Edge...

GitHub’s secret scanning now includes built‑in validators for MongoDB, Meta (Facebook), and multiple Microsoft Azure token types, expanding the service’s ability to tell you not just that a secret was leaked but whether that secret is still usable — a capability that meaningfully changes how...

Short answer Microsoft lists Chromium CVEs (like CVE‑2025‑11210) in the Microsoft Security Update Guide (SUG) because Edge (Chromium‑based) consumes upstream Chromium code; the SUG entry tells Edge customers when Microsoft has ingested and shipped the upstream Chromium fix so they can know Edge...

Chromium’s CVE-2025-11209 — an “inappropriate implementation in Omnibox” — appears in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide because Microsoft must tell Edge customers when an upstream Chromium fix has been ingested and shipped in a downstream Microsoft Edge build; once Microsoft has absorbed and...

Microsoft’s push to make Edge an “AI browser” took a decisive step this year with an update that gives Copilot the ability to act on users’ behalf inside the browser — opening and navigating tabs, running searches, and executing multi-step tasks like bookings and form-filling when explicitly...