Forum: IDS & Scanner Discussions

Looks like it's going to be a busy day in the lab. Nessus 2.1.0 has been released. Here is what Renaud has to say: I am proud to...

I`m about to completely restructure my home network and i thought if i right my plans down you guys can pick them apart and point out any problems....

I have that older PC working as gateway (ClarkConnect 2.1). to get DCC chat and ftp service working i forwarded 2 port ranges to my w2k comp. so...

Hi all. Its that time of year again. I pick up a dozen projects and run with it. For this project I'm going to be setting up a server that will...

My PC have been compromised lately and I want to secure it. B4 i that i hope to noe how they manage to intrude into my system recently I have...

I was wondering if there was a physical device that you plug into a network router or whatever, and it does connection and security scans on each...

Just last week I updated to the latest 12.3T IOS (IOS 12.3(8)T). While reading some of the documentation and searching for new features within the...

Hey guys n gals, does anyone know of a program that is similar to LC5 that will allow someone to scan there internal network for weak passwords with...

Hello all, I would like to pose a question. I've been reading the threads (as much as I could) in the IDS-section but still I have a question...

I just tried the new LANguard 5.0; after having been a fan of the 2.0 for a while. Anyone have any observations on it? Good, bad, indifferent? At...

Hi All, My Surfcontrol sub runs out and I haven't been up on web scanner and content filters for a while. Even though I often Recomend Surf...

Could anyone recomend a book, site, tutorial, or article that would help me in reading logs and analizing them. I currently know snort fairly well,...

Greets, Please excuse if posted before. Just shoot me a PM and I'll delete it on command. Please, follow by with a link. Thank you. Let get...

Hey Hey, Well I finally finished it. The first RC anyways. This is open for use and should be fully functional which is why I'm posting this one...

Hello... I am interested in sniffing un encrypted telnet sessions. My only purpose in doing such a thing is I enjoy this stuff, I find it fun. ...

FYI - http://isc.sans.org/diary.php says: "The following Snort signature may have better detection for the Microsoft SSL Bomb DoS attack than the...

In my copy of ZoneAlarm, it barely detects any intrusions when before when i was using NIS 2003, there were a lot of intrusions detected. I use Win...

So here I sit on yet another run of scheduled maintenance when I figure, hey no time like the present to take care of those few false positives on...

Recently my boss asked me if i would like to takle on the task of implementing an IDS. Now, I hardly know anything about network security and it...

How does one start looking for payload portions uniquely identifying base64 emails, to be able to use them as starting point of snort rules (i.e....