Project Zero researchers see promising trends in vulnerability fixes

Big tech vendors generally are remediating serious bugs faster than they were three years ago, according to a new report from Google’s Project Zero. The data — while limited to vulnerabilities the group itself reported between January 2019 and December 2021, and influenced by what the group’s researchers have chosen to pursue — offers “a number of promising trends,” according to Ryan Schoen of Project Zero. “Vendors are fixing almost all of the bugs that they receive, and they generally …

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