Goodbye (mostly), SecurityFocus
Symantec made the announcement today that SecurityFocus will be essentially be phased out, with only Bugtraq and the vulnerability database accessible through the current site. Much of the content will move over to Symantec Connect, a site that acts as a portal between the company and the security community. Here is the announcement:
Beginning March 15, 2010 SecurityFocus will begin a transition of its content to Symantec Connect. As part of its continued commitment to the community, all of SecurityFocus’ mailing lists including Bugtraq and its Vulnerability Database will remain online at www.securityfocus.com There will not be any changes to any of the list charters or policies and the same teams who have moderated list traffic will continue to do so. The vulnerability database will continue to be updated and made available as it is currently. DeepSight and other security intelligence related offerings will remain unchanged while Infocus articles, whitepapers, and other SecurityFocus content will be available off of the main Symantec website in the coming months.
As a freelancer who acted as the news editor from April 2005 to May 2009, I enjoyed my time working for SecurityFocus. Symantec did a great job maintaining it as long as they did. In the coming days, I plan to post a selection of articles from the site as a tribute.
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Miss ya’ SecurityFocus! Loved working with the team at Calgary. Still good friends, some of ‘em.
I hope you can report the SNMP story… that was interesting. And very good coverage from you. ;)
Back then most people did not even have a clue what fuzzing was. Now most people think they know, but are just plain wrong. ;)
Some interesting things about the SNMP findings back in 2001/2002:
* all of the thousands of bugs in hundreds of individual products are still behind handful of CVE identifiers (good luck for security scanners, firewalls and IDS in detecting or blocking these)
* most SNMP products still fail with PROTOS SNMP (and commercial SNMP fuzzers)
We never learn. ;)