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Snort on Slackware
September 19th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ARMedslack, Slackware, snort | No Comments »
Snort is an "Intrusion Detection and Prevention System", or - in other words - a program that can detect attempts to attack your network and prevent them. It does this through a series of "rules" that try to detect if the traffic arriving / passing through is legitimate or suspicious.
These rules are regularly updated (as [...]