Security News > 2022 > February > Linux tops Google's Project Zero charts for fastest bug fixes

The bug hunters at Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and Linux is smashing the opposition.

Between 2019 and 2021 open-source developers fixed Linux issues in an average of 25 days, compared to 83 for Microsoft and Oracle pulling last place at 109 days, albeit from a very low number of cases.

Furthermore Linux is showing consistent improvement in response times, from 32 days in 2019 to just 15 last year, and that improvement is being mirrored across the industry.

As you'd expect, the Project Zero team spent a lot of time investigating Chrome, finding 40 bugs compared to 27 in the troubled WebKit, and eight in Firefox.

"Coming next month, you will be able to opt in to Google's account-level enhanced safe browsing feature - which provides our broadest security protection against threats you encounter on the web and against your Google Account," said Jen Fitzpatrick, SVP of core systems and experiences at Google.

Google introduced 2FA for Gmail users more than a decade ago but takeup has been low, with only 10 per cent of customers using it as recently as four years ago.

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