In the second part of our series, we start the upgrade of our pfSense-based box from IDS to UTM.
In the first part of our series, we see if pfSense can be configured to perform UTM duties.
We'll show you how to get enterprise grade network protection by making your own intrusion detection firewall with pfSense.
Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., and Insecure.Org, the creator of the Nmap Security Scanner, today announced a licensing agreement for the parties to jointly develop open source vulnerability scanning technology based on the general purpose Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) embedded within the Nmap network discovery tool.
Under the agreement, Insecure.Org will develop the engine while the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) will develop and contribute plug-ins for discovering specific vulnerabilities.
On Monday, Sourcefire the company behind the open-source intrusion-detection application Snort said that hackers could potentially execute malicious code on a system running Snort and gain access to confidential data.
The vulnerability was reported to Sourcefire by Internet Security Systems (ISS), the security arm of IBM.
What is Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) and why should you care? Here's the straight poop.
The Wi-Fi class system has outlived its usefulness. So we have switched to a new method to categorize these products.
Our 2017 guide to choosing a wireless router reflects the changing Wi-Fi landscape.
When we ran our mashup tests on NETGEAR's Orbi, the winning product was very clear.
