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The project was started in August 2002 at the [[Black Hat Briefings|Blackhat]] and [[DEF CON]] Conferences by several industry notables (including [[H. D. Moore]], rain.forest.puppy, and others). Under mostly-new management, the database officially launched to the public on March 31, 2004.
 
The [[Open Security Foundation]] (OSF) was created to ensure the project's continuing support. Brian Martin (AKA Jericho) and [[Jake Kouns]] are project leaders for the OSVDB project,<ref>http://opensecurityfoundation.org/</ref> and currently hold leadership roles in the OSF. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. It has a pluggable data store architecture
 
On the 5th April 2016, the database was shut down,<ref>https://blog.osvdb.org/2016/04/05/osvdb-fin/</ref> although the blog will continue.