An intrusion detection system – or IDS – is a high-tech burglar alarm, keeping a watchful eye on your computer and alerting when computer or network activity indicates unauthorised or malicious ...

In a column about syslog [see “syslog Configuration” in the December 2001 issue of LJ] I mentioned “stealth logging”--by running your central log server without an IP address, you can hide your ...

Network security is a hot topic these days, and intrusion detection systems are playing a greater role in network security. Refeeq Ur Rehman's book Intrusion Detection with SNORT, Apache, MySQL, PHP, ...

So I'm configuring snort, and it will NOT recognize that I have mySQL installed.<BR><BR>I tried ./configure --with-mysql and it says it can't find the header file (mysql.h). Fair enough, I find the ...

Snort, with its funny name, has three primary operating modes. The first two are not really intrusion-related and merely reads network packets received and displays them on-screen or to disk. In these ...