2002 : "The OSVDB was founded at the infosec conferences, Black Hat and DEF CON, created to provide an accurate, detailed and unbiased technical information about all types of vulnerabilities.
The OSVDB was opened for public use in 2004, and a nonprofit was created to support the database, the Open Security Foundation. As a vendor-neutral vulnerability database, information sources include security mailing lists, exploit aggregation sites, vendor websites and more - once validated, it is reviewed by project moderators for inclusion."
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