The creator of Snort, the open-source network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an overhaul. IDS has failed to impress the market, Martin Roesch told delegates at the ...

I have a pretty extensive snort and ipchains ruleset running on my gateway box. With the recent rise in named/rpc exloits, I gave both rulesets a good checking over and got to thinking. Say I have a ...