UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster

Infosec roundup: the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has deployed a Vulnerability Monitoring System that dramatically reduced DNS vulnerability identification and remediation times across ~6,000 public-sector sites; Mozilla shipped Firefox 148 with a Sanitizer API to mitigate DOM XSS; the FTC clarified it will not enforce COPPA against sites using age-verification technology if handled appropriately; CISA's acting director was reassigned amid leadership changes; and Ofcom fined a pornography operator £1.35M for failing to implement legally required age checks.