I just set up a shorewall box for my dorm room on a resnet. I'm making heavy use of blacklists and now I'm wondering about a few things:<BR><BR>1. Is it wise to have snort listen on the WAN eth?<BR>2.

Need a simple-to-use yet highly flexible intrusion detection package? If so, look no further than Snort. This Linux utility might be just what you need for network traffic monitoring, and Jim McIntyre ...

Snort is often referred to as a lightweight intrusion detection system. Snort is labeled lightweight because it is designed primarily for small network segments. Snort is very flexible due to its rule ...

Snort is a powerful open source intrusion detection system (IDS). What surprises me is how many security people have never touched it to learn more about how IDS works -- or how easy it is to evade ...

One indication that an idea's time has come is when two publications on the topic arrive at the same time. Based on the two titles reviewed here, it's apparent that Snort is going mainstream. These ...

Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

I let my intern upgrade the rules to the snort box and now it's hosed when I start it I get this<BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf ...