WestCoastJustin had a few a good ones. Basically, show me more so that I know why I should go further.
I like the list, I like the box for entering a technology, but you already know what browser and OS I am using. Keep that list and box, perhaps on one side, but show me another pane with some information about potential vulnerabilities on my machine.
Start with what you know - my OS and browser - then have common but unconfirmed SW, e.g., Adode (a good bet), either MS Office or Libre/Open Office (pretty likely I have at least one), Pages, etc. (in my case, eh?). Add a third section to that right-hand pane with some user profiles, e.g., "are you a developer (vulnerabilities in brew? npm?)? an officer worker (typical office stuff)? a designer (advanced Adobe products)?"
You could go a long way with those, without having to scan my machine.
Get some cred, write a scanner, offer that too. I might use it.
(I think it was CNet that used to have a service like that for Windows - I really liked, but they dropped it before I dropped Windows, and that was a long time ago.)
My advise would be - aggregate! There most annoying aspect in security news tracking is wading through multiple iterations/announces about the absolutely same vulnerability. Of course that type of aggregation is much easier said than done :)
First off, I think there is a need for this type of thing, and I would use something like this!
Some ideas:
- what does it look like once you login (screenshots)
- please have an examples page or something like that
- can I build a list like rails, ubuntu, nginx and have it email me? (examples page)
- what does the score do? (again, examples page)
- depending on the data feed, you might also include -
app updates, like -- new version of rails, nginx, or flash, etc
So I might be alone in this... but I can't see "Vulnia" without thinking about vulvia, a vulva metropolis where Zaha Hadid has a major architectural influence. Again, that might be a personal problem - but in the interest of feedback, you've made me think of a vulva city.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 22.9 ms ] threadI like the list, I like the box for entering a technology, but you already know what browser and OS I am using. Keep that list and box, perhaps on one side, but show me another pane with some information about potential vulnerabilities on my machine.
Start with what you know - my OS and browser - then have common but unconfirmed SW, e.g., Adode (a good bet), either MS Office or Libre/Open Office (pretty likely I have at least one), Pages, etc. (in my case, eh?). Add a third section to that right-hand pane with some user profiles, e.g., "are you a developer (vulnerabilities in brew? npm?)? an officer worker (typical office stuff)? a designer (advanced Adobe products)?"
You could go a long way with those, without having to scan my machine.
Get some cred, write a scanner, offer that too. I might use it.
(I think it was CNet that used to have a service like that for Windows - I really liked, but they dropped it before I dropped Windows, and that was a long time ago.)
The bottom page is somehow broken in the latest Firefox, the paragraph exits from the gray box.
I don't want to register to receive the updates, do you have other ideas about the notifications?
If you like your product, don't give up.
My advise would be - aggregate! There most annoying aspect in security news tracking is wading through multiple iterations/announces about the absolutely same vulnerability. Of course that type of aggregation is much easier said than done :)
Some ideas:
https://vulnia.com?vulnerabilities=rails%2C%20ruby%2C%20mong...
(naturally, that link doesn't work, or didn't when I wrote this)