Forum: IDS & Scanner Discussions

I've run into irritating port scans by Akamaitechnologies before...but THIS TIME....I stopped them. :) I was just sitting here looking for a job...

Hi, I am getting logs from my router(Netgear) but I dont know what this is or which machine on the network is generating this. Can anyone help me?...

Since Friday I have been seeing some different hits in SNORT. I am getting a lot of "ICMP Destination Unreachable (Communication Administratively...

Whats the best port scanner out there? I want a good one so I can chck my home LAN for any valnurabilites. I got netscan from www.networkpunk.com ,...

I finaly managed to get snort installed and running on my Windows 98 SE box. The file Alert.ids was created and placed in the directory: ...

Stealth is a subject I do like and this article opened the eyes for me in many ways. Stealth is a fashinating subject and its now soon time for me to...

From Fyodor..... Nmap hackers, I am pleased to release Nmap 3.75, which contains dozens of improvements over 3.70. One of the most important...

In my adventures on the internet I stumbled upon a awsome portscanner/security auditor it's called Shadow Security Scanner 5.33. It does a Syn scan...

Anyone here using OSSEC for a host based IDS in a Windows environment? If so, how do you like it? I've been toying with it for a while and have it...

Hi, I am wondering if anyone has done a comparison head to head with the Tipping Point and Sourcefire IPS systems inline on their network. We have...

Lots of new goodies in this build! Read below... Several anxious people have reminded me lately that it has been 7 months since the last formal...

Greetings, Something just hit my mind and I would like the responces of all the brave souls here. Nmap, as we all know, is a port scanner...

I'm learning to write snort rules. Wow, some are really straight forward, and some are "out there." It occurred to me that Snort is really busy --...

Anyone seen this type of activity?: On 11/29, an internal workstation appeared to perform UDP portscans to 27 unique external IPs. All the...

Can anyone give me nice free utility for remote port scanner thanks in advance

Im trying to understand why different ports are associated with and to be specific port 5190. How does port 5190 Can anyone explain this to me. Why...

Hehe, yep, NMAP is now in a pr0n film. Just thought this would be a little humor for us all since AO has been quite testy lately... ...

Tenable released 32 Nessus plugins specific to SCADA this week. It used to be that using the name Nessus (or any vulnerability scanning/systems...

HI guys When we make a system buffer overflow then how should we send arbitrary commands as they say like Buffer Overflow and executed...