Snort 2.8.1 Released

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

New Additions Target-Based support to allow rules to use an attribute table describing services running on various hosts on the network. Eliminates reliance on port-based rules. Support for GRE encapsulation for both IPv4 & IPv6. Support for IP over IP tunneling for both IPv4 & IPv6. SSL preprocessor to allow ability to not inspect ...

A Peek at Snort 3.0

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The wildly popular open source Snort intrusion prevention technology is getting a major makeover. Marty Roesch, who wrote the first version of the software nearly 10 years ago, has rewritten the software from top to bottom in the next-generation Snort 3.0 release, due in beta next month and early next year ...