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For the past few days I've been playing with alpha code for Snort 3.0 , recently announced . One of the most interesting aspects of Sno...

Saad Kadhi kindly pointed me to this blog post which summarizes a talk given by Marty Roesch. Saad describes Marty's plans for Snort 3...

Bill Brenner published this quote in his story Sourcefire IPO could fuel Snort, users say : The infrastructure to support Snort isn't ch...

You may have read that Snort 2.6.0 is in the FreeBSD ports tree now. I installed the package this morning and learned there is a problem w...

I've been working with Snort 2.6.0 on FreeBSD. When you look at the snort.conf you'll see a bunch of rules commented out. # include ...

The FreeBSD security/snort port now offers 2.6.0. Just run portsnap fetch && portsnap update and you're ready. I'm not s...

I've talked about Snort 2.6 twice before . I wanted to give 2.6 a try using the FreeBSD ports tree, but the security/snort port still...

On my flights to and from the GFIRST 2006 conference this week, I got a chance to read the manual for Snort 2.6.0RC1 . The most obvious ad...

According to Sourcefire's press release : Sourcefire, Inc., the world leader in intrusion prevention, today announced that, with the con...

This week Sourcefire released Snort 2.4.4 and Snort 2.6 BETA . Because the a ports tree freeze is in effect in preparation for FreeBSD 5...

Based on a friend's tip, I found myself looking for this press release , which reads in part: Check Point ® Software Technologies Ltd. (...

The folks at Sourcefire have done the analyst community a great service by posting traffic captures of CME-24 , aka "BlackWorm"....

My friend David Bianco is organizing a Hampton Roads, VA Snort Users Group . The first meeting will be 1 December 2005. Check out the sto...

As I expected, FrSIRT published an exploit for the Snort Back Orifice vulnerability discovered last week. I was able to compile and execu...

This week we learned via an advisory of a vulnerability in the Back Orifice preprocessor in Snort version 2.4.2, 2.4.1, and 2.4.0. The vul...

Eric B. Parizo mentioned me in his story Snort users fear future under Check Point . One of the quotes appears as follows: Richard Bejtlich...

This was a busy week for me; I spent all week teaching (and all last week preparing) a private Network Security Operations class in Califor...

Newsflash: compiling Snort on Windows is not the chore some people believe it to be. After reading my flailing attempt to use a beta Visu...

Many of you have undoubtedly read the snort-users thread where some people complain about not having Snort in compiled form as soon as Sour...