On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Cameron Beere <[email protected]>wrote:

> Personally I subscribe to a few mailing lists like Bugtraq, and comb tech
> oriented sites like Hacker News, but I'm sure that valuable information is
> still slipping through.  Is there a better way to do it?  Are there any
> mailing lists/websites/sources which cover the whole gamut of tech that
> we might use, or paid services which can provide this information across
> multiple vendors?  Are there even any vendor specific mailing lists which
> you consider an authoritative source for information like this?
>

I subscribe to the security-announce lists for specific products I'm
interested in, like Red Hat's enterprise-watch-list [1],
debian-security-announce [2], and puppet-announce [3]. Those emails land in
my Inbox because I consider them important and authoritative, a Gmail
filter applies a label to them, and I Archive them after reviewing. If you
live in a Windows world, Microsoft has security lists too [4].

For software not included in the OS distro, and where the developer doesn't
have a security-announce list, I subscribe to a general security list,
Secunia Advisories [5] has worked well for me. The general lists are very
high volume, I have a filter to Archive all the messages that don't match
specific product strings, so only messages I care about land in my Inbox.

I think SourceNinja [6] looks like a good idea, but it's invite only right
now. You tell them the software you use, and they alert you when there are
updates including to libraries that are dependencies.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enterprise-watch-list
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
[3] http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-announce
[4] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd252948
[5] http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/
[6] http://www.sourceninja.com/

-Anton
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