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Google: 70% of exploited flaws disclosed in 2023 were zero-days
(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up -- the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.
Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.
Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.
Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.
That would assume that security was a priority beforehand.
Google has been known to prioritize new projects over maintaining existing ones. That would generally lead to less defined security architecture as the system is less tested.