@freebsdsecurity Twitter handle?

Kubilay Kocak koobs at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 29 10:58:56 UTC 2020


On 29/01/2020 8:42 pm, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Kubilay Kocak wrote on 2020/01/29 03:53:
>> On 29/01/2020 7:51 am, Royce Williams wrote:
>>> Is the @freebsdsecurity Twitter handle managed by the security team? (If
>>> so, looks like it's been fallow since 2016?)
>>>
>>> If not, is there an equivalent Twitter account that is official?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Royce,
>>
>> I run @FreeBSDHelp, tweet about FreeBSD security related issues and 
>> SA's / EN's when announced, and am not aware of an official 
>> security-oriented presence on Twitter.
>>
>> I've reached out to @FreeBSDSecurity on twitter to see if I can access 
>> to the account to facilitate that.
>>
>> Note: Other official accounts are @freebsd_portmgr and @freebsdcore
>>
>> I registered @FreeBSDSecteam for potential official tweets by secteam 
>> & ports-secteams, but haven't put it to use yet. I'll see if I can't 
>> get something started
> 
> It is always good to have more channels for Security Advisories.
> Can somebody convince FreeBSD Security Office to publish Advisories in 
> vuln.xml at the same as on the website? It is FreeBSD's own tool to 
> handle vulnerabilities but they are not there.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243702

This (making sure SA's were added) was brought up in the recent past so 
I imagine todays SA's are/were either planned, or already in flight to 
land in the VuXML list.

Thank you for creating the issue, its been assigned to secteam cc 
ports-secteam


> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman



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