SecurityFocus announced the closure of the mailing list BugTraq , which has published reports of vulnerabilities in various products since 1993. BugTraq was instrumental in encouraging the rapid release of vulnerability patches as it initially released issues without the approval of the vulnerable product manufacturers, who at the time often ignored direct vulnerability reporting.
In February last year, the posting of new posts on BugTraq was blocked without explanation. The reasons for the blocking have now been revealed and the decision has been announced to completely close the mailing list. Including on January 31, the official BugTraq archive with previously published messages will be closed (mirrors will remain in the ranks, including the mirror maintained by the NMAP developer ).
In 2002, the mailing list-supporting publication SecurityFocus was acquired by Symantec, which was acquired by Broadcom in 2019. In 2020, Broadcom sold some assets, including SecurityFocus, to Accenture , which considered it inappropriate to further maintain the site SecurityFocus and related services with it.
The Full Disclosure mailing list, which was created in 2002 following a change in the moderation policy and the transfer of BugTraq to Symantec’s control, continues to operate. In 2014, the Full Disclosure maintainers decided to close the project amid increasing requirements to remove certain information from persons not interested in its public availability, but the author of NMAP took the mailing under his wing. In addition, since 2008 there is also a mailing list OSS Security , aimed to inform about open source vulnerabilities and discuss patches to fix them.