What is a CVE?
FerbFletcher@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Ironically, in the past year, one of my employers specifically disallowed Firefox due to a CVE, saying that we were to use Chrome. A Cybersecurity professional once told me that Firefox is frowned upon because of CVEs.
TetraVega@lemmings.world 8 months ago
FerbFletcher@reddthat.com 8 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exp…
not being a jerk, just in a hurry
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
May I ask what specific CVE and when your professional told you that?
FerbFletcher@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I don’t recall the CVE, it was likely months ago, and I wasn’t in a position to argue.
The Cyber guy said that a few years ago (3?).
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This has been rampant for years now.
There was a massive movement years ago to get every user on Chrome. Even going so far as to replace all instances of IE with Chrome, then change the Chrome desktop icon to the IE icon.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Are you alluding to Edge becoming a chromium fork? Or did some orgs really do this weird icon trickery?
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not orgs,…exactly.
There was a huge push by well, a lot of IT and tech based people to get behind and push promotion of Chrome over Firefox and IE. FF had its issues at the time and seemingly everyone trusted Google to no end (ashamedly myself included).
I’m gonna say this happened ~2010 or so.