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# UK govermnent's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working

**[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A roundup of infosec news covering several topics: the UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System (VMS) has cut DNS vulnerability remediation time by 84%, from 50 days to 8 days, while scanning 6,000 public sector websites for ~1,000 vulnerability types. Firefox 148 introduced a Sanitizer API replacing innerHTML with setHTML() to combat DOM-based XSS attacks. The FTC announced it won't pursue COPPA enforcement against sites collecting minors' PII solely for age verification purposes. CISA's acting director Madhu Gottumukkala was reassigned to DHS, with Nick Andersen taking over as acting director. UK regulator Ofcom fined a pornography site operator £1.35 million for failing to implement age checks under the Online Safety Act.

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