Snort, the open source intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS), can be a fabulous tool to protect your network from attack – if it’s set up correctly. If it’s not, it can cause network ...

Whenever I think of snort-wheezing to whitetail deer, I think of my buddy Tony Peterson, who is a well-known outdoor writer and public-land whitetail hunting expert, not to mention a born skeptic. And ...

Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security ...

I was wondering if anyone has experience with any of the various open source packages based on snort out there. I'd love to use a SourceFire solution but it's not in the budget right now.<BR><BR>I'm ...

Sourcefire this week is expected to announce add-on software called Intrusion Agent for its intrusion-detection system freeware Snort. The add-on will let the freeware version of Snort work with an ...

Snort can be buffer overflowed. About once a year, Snort gets a buffer overflow vulnerability. Any piece of additional software in a defense strategy has to be carefully considered (e.g. Snort, ...