Why Snort matters: Snort is a powerful open-source IDS/IPS used globally for real-time traffic analysis, packet logging, and blocking known threats. What you can do: By writing custom rules, you can ...

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 ...

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, ...