Hi, I'm endrazine — a cybersecurity researcher, and author of security tools used by engineers worldwide.

For decades, SecurityFocus.com was a cornerstone of the internet's security infrastructure. It hosted Bugtraq, one of the most important vulnerability disclosure mailing lists ever created, where researchers, vendors, and engineers documented thousands of security flaws in technical detail that existed nowhere else.

Today, that history is at risk of being lost forever.

The NVD (National Vulnerability Database) — the authoritative registry of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities used daily by security engineers, PSIRTs, and automated patching systems worldwide — contains over 120,000 links pointing to securityfocus.com. Those links are now dead. Every broken link is a gap in the public record: a vulnerability whose full technical details are no longer accessible to the people responsible for protecting our systems.

On February 4th, 2020, Symantec — then the owner of the domain — shut down Bugtraq. The domain has since lapsed and is now listed for sale at $175,000 on the open market, where it could be purchased by anyone, for any purpose.

This fundraiser has one goal: buy the domain back, and restore it.

The archives exist. They are preserved on seclists.org and archive.org. With the domain secured, we can restore the original content, repair over 120,000 broken NVD links, and return this irreplaceable resource to the security community — where it belongs.

This isn't about nostalgia. It's about keeping critical vulnerability information accessible to the engineers who defend our infrastructure every day.

The internet needs this. Help us bring it back.

Learn more about SecurityFocus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurityFocus

Learn more about Bugtraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugtraq