Tag: Broadcom

  • Saving Bugtraq

    In July of 2019, many noticed that the Bugtraq mail list stopped having posts approved, including Art Manion at CERT. Since there are many other outlets for vulnerability disclosure, such as the Full-Disclosure mail list, Packetstorm, Exploit Database, and increasingly on GitHub, it didn’t receive much attention. It wasn’t like the days when the list…

  • Your yearly reminder to post to Full-Disclosure, not Bugtraq

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] [10/29/2020 Update: As of February 24, SecurityFocus has stopped moderating posts to the Bugtraq mail list without explanation or warning. This is apparently related to Broadcom acquiring Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus.] This has been a long-recognized and proven thing, but every year we run into more…