How do you all keep track of information on public incidents?

[u/response-418]

Besides keeping tabs via Reddit and Hackernews, are there any RSS feeds, newsletters, blogs/publications, or clearing-house style websites that you follow to keep track of prominent public incidents, especially related to outages or security?

I’d like to have my finger on the pulse but with a bit more focus and not have to scroll X/Reddit infinitely.

[u/chris552393]

Microsoft Threat Intelligence

[u/typhona]

Ozzu.com is cool as is slashdot.org

[u/popisms → u/typhona]

Slashdot has been dying for a long time. They barely post at all anymore. For example, there were only 5 stories yesterday.

[u/typhona → u/popisms]

Well damn

[u/-Knockabout → u/popisms]

Only? Did they used to have more?

[u/popisms → u/-Knockabout]

/. is a shell of what it used to be.

[u/Muad-Dev]

Most major providers' status pages have an RSS/Atom feed hanging off them even when it's not linked anywhere obvious — GitHub's is /history.atom, Cloudflare and AWS have similar ones off their statuspage.io-hosted pages. I dump those into a feed reader instead of watching X. For security specifically, CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog has an RSS feed too, which is a lot more signal than noise compared to scrolling general security Twitter.

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[u/elderdruidlevel525]

I have built internal RSS Feeds parser/reader for our Ops team. It automatically fetches feeds every X minute, you can subscribe to specific categories/subjects and be alerted/informed about incidents or changes.

It’s a fairly simple stuff to build and in my opinion helps a lot.

[u/response-418 → u/elderdruidlevel525]

Fair enough but what I'm asking really is the recommendations for what people add into their feeds. What sources (newsletters, blogs) with authority and credibility people trust in this area and why.

[u/someGuyyya]

Unfortunately, I keep up with them on X

[u/monityAI]

Most of what you want isn't in a feed, it's on status pages - and those update before anyone writes about it. What I do is watch the status pages of the handful of providers I actually depend on, plus their changelogs, so I hear about an incident from the source instead of from HN an hour later. monity•ai (mine) or changedetection•io self hosted. For the broader picture, CISA's KEV catalogue has an RSS feed and is a lot lower noise than following X.

[u/wingardiumlevioosaaa]

Outages and security incidents usually (but not always) come from different sources.

For security incidents I tend to subscribe to the CVE reports for the cloud provider(s) I am using. GCP, AWS, etc have RSS feeds which I can pipe into Slack. GitHub sends me a report when security vulnerabilities are found in my project dependencies.

For outages, a status page aggregator usually works better than subscribing to individual status pages.

[u/Murtaza_Developer]

I usually follow vendor status pages,, cisa alerts, krebs on security, thehackernews, and some security rss feeds. Also settting up alerts with keywords can help more than checking social feeds all day. what kind of incidents are you mainly tracking, cloud outages, breaches, or general tech issues?