In brief Last week ended with news that the venerable infosec mailing list Bugtraq was being shutdown at the end of the month.
From its first posts in November 1993, Bugtraq aimed to get details of vulnerabilities, as well as defence and exploitation techniques, onto netizens' radar, and discussed among admins and security researchers. Posts to this once high-volume Symantec-owned list stopped on February 22 last year, and now we know why – a lack of funding and resources.
"Assets of Symantec were acquired by Broadcom in late 2019, and some of those assets were then acquired by Accenture in 2020," an email from the list administrators read.
"At this time, resources for the Bugtraq mailing list have not been prioritized, an ..
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