Tue Sep 21 10:40:36 2004 Open Source
From their website:
According to CERT's statistics, the number of computer security vulnerabilities found each year has risen over two thousand percent since 1995. Tracking these vulnerabilities and their cures is critical for those who protect networked systems against accidental misuse and deliberate attack, from home users and small businesses to globe-spanning enterprises.
Annual vulnerability announcements number in the thousands, well beyond the capacity for human memory to manage. Well-organized databases, with verified contents and flexible search abilities, are required if these vulnerabilities are to be controlled by the security community. The OSVDB provides the necessary structure, technology, and content to support that community requirement for vulnerability management.
AN OPEN SOLUTION
The OSVDB's main goal is to be complete and to be without bias. It should serve as one-stop shopping for all vulnerability needs. Developers creating vulnerability-assessment tools, system administrators protecting servers and networks, business staff assessing risks and remedies, academic researchers documenting analyzing the past and future of network security: all expend effort to identify vulnerabilities, all work to document them consistently, all can benefit from a single, comprehensive source of vulnerability data. The OSVDB is this source, reducing duplication of effort while it promotes data consistency.
The OSVDB is unbiased and neutral in its practices for accepting, reviewing, and publishing vulnerabilities. Its open acceptance of community input and internal review processes ensure that the vulnerability database is not colored by vendor-related biases. OSVDB organizers believe that more than one vulnerability database is needed to meet the full variety of community requirements. While it references the other vulnerability databases, it develops its own database entries to ensure that there are no restrictions on distribution and re-use of the OSVDB vulnerability data: its contents are free of cost and free of restrictions on use.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. (Mark Twain)
---September 21, 2004
It's good that they do an rss feed, but it's too bad they don't do it right.
When you provide a feed, you need to add a header that lets rss aware products (like the latest Firefox) know that this is available. The header is simple:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/aplawrence.rss" title="RSS feed for aplawrence.com">
--TonyLawrence
---September 21, 2004
I sent the webmaster a e-mail about it, explaining what you said. I figure check back in a week and see how much he pays attention to his mail!
--Drag
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