Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead. Whoops.

"Symantec killed Bugtraq in 2020 and let the domain lapse. Now it's squatted for $175k," writes Jonathan Brossard. "The NVD has 120,000+ broken links pointing there. The security community's memory is being held hostage."

gofundme.com/f/restore-securit

Not sure if this matters, but DomainTools says the domain was transferred to Accenture.com, Accenture Global Services Limited in Ireland.

a screenshot from xitter/x

Jonathan Brossard [ol
@endrazine
Symantec killed Bugtraq in 2020 and let the domain lapse. Now it's
squatted for $175k. The NVD has 120,000+ broken links pointing there.
The security community's memory is being held hostage. Let's buy it
back! Please donate/spread/tag/RT

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