Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers revealed this week. Snort's popularity has grown as many businesses have been tempted away from expensive ...

A software vulnerability in the widely used Snort open-source intrusion-detection system (IDS) software could allow an attacker to crash the Snort sensor or gain control of the host device on which ...

An exploit has been published that could take advantage of a flaw in Snort, a popular open-source intrusion protection system, according to a security group. The exploit code, published to the Web by ...

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, ...