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Archive for September 23rd, 2010

September 23rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Introduction
I have set up Snort a few times on a network to check for possible intrusion attempts. It is a very powerful tool to discover these attempts, based on rules that are frequently updated. Snort is a so-called "Intrusion Detection System" (=IDS), that can also be setup as a "Intrusion Prevention System".
Recently I needed Snort [...]