637 Million Insecure Web Surfers - Microsoft Forced to Launch SmartScreen Filter

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• Microsoft
• Apple Inc.
• Mozilla Firefox
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1. A group of researchers from IBM's Internet Security systems, Google and ETH Zurich have released a study which says that 40 percent of the total internet users are using outdated versions of web browsers which makes them vulnerable to attack, thus posing a security risk to any vital information stored on the user's computer. The researchers were able to determine that out of the 1.4 billion internet users worldwide, 637 million used outdated versions of browsers. (Read Full Article)

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