The OSVDB (Open Sourced Vulnerability Database) , vulnerabilities, has decided to close after 12 years of operation and a collection of over 100,000 vulnerabilities.
The announcement was made yesterday, and the database immediately stopped working. All links are redirected to the site's blog. In a brief statement, the site's administrators point out that the website will not be restored.
Brian Martin, OSVDB, said it was not an easy decision, as they struggled for over ten years at personal cost to always have it online.
The Open Sourced Vulnerability Database blog will remain open and will continue to provide thoughts and opinions on security-related topics, and in particular software vulnerabilities.
The Open Sourced Vulnerability Database was started in 2004 by the Open Security Foundation, a non-profit organization founded the following year.
Its goal was to provide free assessments of software vulnerabilities, regardless of their origin and manufacturer.
