Sourcefire Inc. has updated its popular open source Snort IDS tool to plug security holes an attacker could exploit to cause a denial of service or launch malicious code. The vendor said in a its ...

Intrusion detection is not for the faint at heart. But, if you are a network administrator chances are you're under increasing pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are safe--in fact ...

Carpinteria-based Demarc Security, a provider of threat protection software, said yesterday that it has released a fix for the popular open source Snort intrusion detection system. Demarc said that it ...

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) today unveiled Suricata 1.0, an open-source IDS/IPS engine that will compete with the popular Snort tool. Available immediately for download under the ...

I've spent years with the Snort intrusion detection system. It's often a love/hate relationship as I massage the rules in order to get to meaningful and actionable data. Often it comes down to parsing ...