NSS Labs: IE9 blocks 5x more threats than Firefox, Chrome & Safari

NSS Labs, a reputable security research center, has just released its 2010 Q3 Browser Security report. In this report the attack protection found in IE8 jumped from 85% to 95%, and IE9 jumped from 90% to 99%!

 

Thus IE9 blocks 5x as many attacks as Firefox, 9x as Safari, and 33x as Chrome.

How do the Internet Explorer does this?

• Read this great blog post by the IE team: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/10/13/stranger-danger-introducing-smartscreen-application-reputation.aspx
• Watch this Video about Behind the Scenes with Security in IE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzmXTGh4kv0 
• The Full NSS Labs 2010 Q3 report: https://www.nsslabs.com/research/endpoint-security/browser-security/web-browser-group-test-socially-engineered-malware-q3-2010.html