Back in May, Microsoft Edge senior program manager Crispin Cowan made some bold predictions in the blog post Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser. In the blog, Cowan assured us that: The article goes on at length to describe how Edge will be better than the bad, old IE, “including industry-leading sandboxing, compiler, and memory management techniques developed in close partnership with Windows.” Leohard writes that Patch Tuesday released by Microsoft yesterday and last month confirms his belief that Edge is carrying forward the IE vulnerabilities. “The reason for my skepticism: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Each CVE entry is supposed to identify a unique security hole. The overlap between Internet Explorer CVEs and Edge CVEs shows that many security problems in IE have been inherited by Edge.” In yesterdays Patch Tuesday, Microsoft claims to have plugged 15 CVE holes. Leonhard says that, “I took a look at the official CVE list for Edge and compared it with the similar list for Internet Explorer. There are 14 identified CVEs for Microsoft Edge. Of those, 13 are also identified security holes for Internet Explorer.” He rounds up with his article stating that Edge seems to improve on certain areas but is far from being the most secure browser of them all.
