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I haven't been actively monitoring for security vulnerabilities ever since I switched from system administration to software development a few decades back. These days, I just read news that talks about high profile vulnerabilities - I do see CVE a lot more than cert.

We used to look at cert: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/ I just did a quick search to confirm that it is still there.

What's the difference/relationship between the two?

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The primary difference is that CVE was unexpectedly killed by the US Government yesterday and the program terminates today.

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How is the failure to renew a contract "unexpected"?

Contracts have end dates. All parties on the contract know them.