Forum: IDS & Scanner Discussions

Hi all, Matta is proud to announce the release of a selection of technical white papers and guides, covering network scanning, attack &...

From CERT, here is a huge PDF that covers intrusion detection technologies . Good read, but it's 1.5 MB and more that 200 pages.

Hi there! Can anyone tell me how to track and identify port scanners? What I want to know is where on earth these port scanning originated and...

Story is old (about a month) but truly telling in it's complete nature. Shows where the DOS aTtackers are going and how in detail they carry out...

Just a heads up for user running PHP, Hopefully no one else has posted this. http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html

After reading this article I only could ask myself: - Will Snort be a fully commercial product or will there be open source alternatives?

On micaels suggestion that we put our fw, scanner, snoop honeypot items in IDS - I am considering the checkpoint ng soho product. I see there...

Good introduction to Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). "Out surfing today I found a few months old but not outdated introduction to Intrusion...

Linux-Intrusion Detection System vulnerability The use of LD_PRELOAD can make a program with privileges given by LIDS execute attackers code....

I kinda think it fits in IDS & Scanners. I was wondering if anyone had info on honeypots, as to how to make one as to how not to get caught by one....

I would like to learn more about IDS & Honeypot's. Can someone please help me find some useful information on the net! :confused:

One of the main questions many people have about IDS is, what is the difference between Host based IDS (HIDS) and Network Based IDS (NIDS)? This...

Wondering if anyone has used the ISS 6 version, considering an upgrade from 5.5. Don't flame me or "inform" me about how bad it is. I know. It's...

Well...Since I requested this forum...I thought it would only be right if I at least posted in it...;) I just want to list out a few of the...

I have been reading these forums for quite some time now, and I really think there is a lack of attention to IDS systems. I have been using snort on...