Nick The Linux Experiment wrote a great article in 2019 “ Why every browser switching to Blink could be bad news for the web” outlining the risks of such a monopoly. The rest is divided between Safari and Firefox. Over 85% of the world runs Blink (Chromium, Opera and Microsoft Edge, according to latest browser market share reports), which is a rather high attack surface. The world runs on Blink, and the V8 JavaScript engine In reverse you cannot conclude that browsers and tech not listed here are more secure.Ĭomparison of browser engines, en. What is evident in the graphs: only the most common browsers (and Flash) have been looked at. Most often the browser is the weakest part of the chain, and Project Zero publicly tracked all known in-the-wild “zero day” bugs in browsers from 2015–2021. You should possibly start thinking about browser security. Another statistic quantifies that every year 15 million Americans become victims of identity theft. In a report released by Aite Group, 47% of US citizens experienced financial identity theft in 2021.
On the platform “ have i been pwned” you can check if your data has been obtained through a leak -and chances are you are reading this article from a browser with back-doors. But even if you are not into crypto you are a target. Forbes described that money is the motivation of attackers, and valuable data targeted are banking accounts, online credentials and cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
With the rise of digitization and daily lives moving online, a new wave of online “cyberthreats” is on the rise. We are living in worrying times - COVID-19, war, and global cyber threats are in the news. The worst of times: identity theft and cyber-threats are real
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