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 ...

Intrusion-detection systems, such as Snort, are immensely helpful in maintaining secure environments. These systems have matured over the years and are now quite capable of providing solution ...

In our tests of five leading network intrusion-detection systems and the popular open source Snort, performance was spotty during baseline testing and degraded by as much as 50% on some products when ...

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a group funded by the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and several security vendors, this week released an open source engine built to detect ...

Researchers from Demarc, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based security vendor, discovered the flaw May 17 and released a patch earlier this week. Researchers found that while connecting to Web ports via telnet ...