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 ...

Microsoft Plans Five ‘Critical’ Security Updates For Windows, Explorer

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to release eight software updates for the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer Web browser to patch security holes, five of which the company described as "critical."Microsoft said it plans to release the updates on April 8. PC users can determine if they need ...

Can’t Find Vista SP1 on Windows Update?

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Microsoft has released a Knowledge Base article to help users who are having problems getting Vista SP1 from the Windows Update site.  Here's a list of possible causes they have come up with so far: You are already running Windows Vista SP1. Windows Vista SP1 has not been released for the language ...

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Finally Gets Cookies Right!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Previous versions of Firefox had the option to block or allow 3rd party cookies removed from the GUI and completely hidden from view.  You had to go to about:config and change the value of network.cookie.cookieBehavior to "1" if you wanted to block them, or keep it at it's default of ...

Firefox 3 beta 5 released

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Mozilla has released yet another beta version of the next generation Firefox web browser. Firefox 3 beta 5 doesn't have a ton of new features, but it fixes a lot of bugs and packs a bunch of under the hood tweaks that make the browser easier to use and more ...