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Snort is one of the the world's most popular Intrusion Detection System/ Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS). Every hacker and network engineer should be familiar with Snort. As a hacker, you will need to evade it; as a network engineer, you will need to manage and depend upon it.
Introduction to Regular Expressions (regex)
Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! This next subject might seem a bit obscure to the uninitiated--but I promise-- this lesson will...
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Linux Firewalls: Creating an Application Layer IDS/IPS with fwsnort
Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In a previous tutorial here, I introduced you to the Linux firewall, iptables. iptables enables...
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Snort Basics for Hackers, Part 6: Configuring Snort to Detect the SolarWinds/Sunburst Backdoor
Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In recent weeks I'm certain you have heard about the SolarWinds/Sunburst hack. Just to review,...
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Snort Basics for Hackers, Part 5: Testing your Snort IDS Against Known Exploits
Welcome back, my greenhorn cyber warriors! In my previous posts in this series, we installed Snort, configured Snort, set up Snort to...
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Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Hackers, Part 1: Installing Snort
Welcome back, my neophyte hackers! In the world of information security, the most common intrusion detection system (IDS) you will ever...
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Snort Basics: How to Read and Write Snort Rules, Part 1
Welcome back, my novice hackers! ​ My recent tutorials have been focused upon ways to NOT get caught. Some people call this...
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Snort IDS for Hackers, Part 3: Sending Intrusion Alerts to MySQL
Welcome back, my hacker novitiates! If you have been following this new Snort series, you know that Snort is the world's most widely used...
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Snort IDS for Hackers, Part 2: Basic Configuration of your Snort IDS
Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers! As you should know from before, Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection system (IDS)...
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Hackers-Arise Purchases Snort Training Institute
Today, Hackers-Arise announced the purchase of the Snort Training Institute! The Snort Training Institute is the premier training...
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