Forum: IDS & Scanner Discussions

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I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine configured as a firewall. I also want to add snort on it. I pretty much managed to install snort and prelude but every...

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While attempting to update my nessus (2.2) plug-ins via nessus-update-plugins I recieve the following error message: The OS is Fedora Core2...

Hello all- Another auditor and I are reviewing a NESSUS report from a group of *nix servers we are auditing right now, that shows a vulnerability...

Hello all- I was looking through the man pages for nessus and could not find anything on this, but I was wondering if there is a "safe" way to...

I work for a bank in Philly and we are preparing for a quarterly audit. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good war dialing application. We'd like...

hi guys,recently some friend of mine told me a scanner named "Foundstone Enterprise". i looked video about it ,its function is overall. who can...

Hello all- Our team has been discussing with IT Security whether or not we should pay for the NESSUS feeds or not based on our usage. I was...

This article was published on the net yesterday, I would like to know what you guys think about this. There is a related AO thread posted yesterday...

I have a machine that is constantly showing up in my Snort logs. The machine is a proxy and does not have file/print or any netbios settings enabled...

source: http://www.metasploit.com/

Fyodor did an interview with whitedust security (or some online media group) and he handed over some screenshots of UMIT, the new NMAP GUI. It should...

How do you detect of some one is running an IDS?

After some experimenting I've realized that you cannot list ports for PORT variables in the snort.conf files. I actually just read in some...

http://www.snort.org/about_snort/msg_from_marty/mr_100605.html http://www.checkpoint.com/sourcefire/

Read all about it, one packet is all is takes (if you run snort in verbose mode).. http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-09-13

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This probably doesn't go here but it's the closest I could find... http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/29/31457/0519 Finding the location,...

Hey Hey, As many of you have seen in another thread, Nessus 3 is on the way (and it will be closed source but still available free of charge). On...