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Submission + - New OpenSource IDS/IDP (Beta) Suricata Released (openinfosecfoundation.org)

richrumble writes: The OISF has released the beta version of the Suricata IDS/IPS engine:
The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field.
This new Engine supports Mult-Threading, Automatic Protocol Detection (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, TLS, FTP and SMB! ), Gzip Decompression, Fast IP Matching and coming soon hardware acceleration on CUDA and OpenCL GPU cards!

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Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs 627

ruphus13 writes "In a recent talk at the Churchill Club, Michael Dell addressed several topics, including the fact that Windows 7 is poised to take advantage of the upgrade cycle. Dell has always been a strong MS OEM ally and it is now hoping to cash in again from the impending upgrades. From the post: 'Dell made plain several times that he sees the installed base of technology as very old, and sees a coming "refresh cycle" for which he has high hopes. "The latest generation of chips from Intel is strong, particularly Nehalem," he said, adding, "and Windows 7 is on its way." (The operating system arrives Oct. 22nd, although Microsoft's large-volume licensees are already getting it.) He pointed out that many business are running Windows XP, which is eight years old. "I've been using Windows 7 for a long time now," he said, "and if you get the latest processor technology and Office 2010 with it, you will love your PC again. It's a dramatic improvement."'"

Comment Where the Fuck is MEMJET! (Score 1) 557

Why can't these guys come out to play!! This is the one piece of Vaporware I am still holding out hope for. I've written them, they've replied eventually, they keep pushing the release dates back... http://www.memjethomeandoffice.com/faq/category/company/ >Although we initially believed we would be introducing A4/Letter devices through OEM brands in 2009, the timing now has shifted to 2010 Fuck! -rich

Comment ClearSite NMS was a good start (Score 1) 342

We have similar goals with our project Clearsite.sourceforge.net. We've learned our lessons and think we can begin taking on the likes of SolarWinds, OSSIM, ZenOss, SpiceWorks etc... We made the mistake of being to geared toward one vendor(cisco) but no longer. We're making the software work for us, were not working with the software. Crating a Snort interface that highlights the portion of the packet that trips the content rule, being able to note FP's, highlight the portion that's a FP in the packet, and it's added to the rule once you click submit. Some user-agent rule goes off, but it's your own app, highlight the user-agent your app uses, click submit and content:!"user-agent: xyz"; gets added to a display filter and or the actual sig itself. A snort rule is triggered for Bittorrent being used, a cron job connects via wmi, snmp or ssh to a host, runs a netstat -abn effectively and figures out the process and location of the executable that triggered the rule, or the lack of being able to get such a result back might further point to a FP or a machine not under your control. If no contact, check the mac address db to see if it's one of yours, if not, snmp set fa0/22 disable. Proactive. Naturally there are more checks and balances in there, but that's where were heading with just the snort portion. Again making the software work for us. As always we'll use our very popular ajax search for everything we can. http://clearsite.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=3 -rich (google: xinn.org contact)

Comment Security is a Process (Score 1) 1092

Security is not a product; it itself is a process. And if we're going to make our digital systems secure [sic and or loved ones], we're going to have to start building processes. If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. ~Bruce Schneier

Comment Re:I played the closed beta... (Score 2, Interesting) 60

It is fun! It is the best FPS I've played online ever. Note, its beta, there are still plenty of bugs. My biggest and fastest computer only gets 10-24fps, but my older mid-level is 125fps solid. The difference seems to be 64-bit XP vs 32-bit. Regardless of browser, video driver, single head, multi-head, picmip, screen resolution, fresh install or otherwise, the 64-bit machine get's terrible fps (usable, but not as nice) and the 32-bit screams... I've done everything I can, swapped video cards between to two... everything. But playing on the 32-bit is a lot of fun! The skill matching is pretty good, the levels are fresh, some are reworked, some of the good ones from RA3 are missing, but its still a blast. -rich

Comment Non-admin is easy, you n00b's, oh and don't use IE (Score 1) 420

Running as non-admin is easy, runas (which is only a right-click away)is very easy to use and works well 99% of the time. The annoying thing is remembering to right-click the msi/exe to use runas :) Do you need AV? IE is how BHO's like vundo get in to your pc, active-x is also a nightmare... I've been saying this for years! I have 5000+ users that we no longer install AV directly on their PC's, and we pass our PCI/DSS and SOX audits every year. There is no excuse for M$ to put users into Admin by default. Windows 7 however it does... the local admin account is disabled... but so what! It's idiotic, lock the administrator, but place a new user into admin group by default. -rich ClearSite

Comment Re:As an Indiana resident... (Score 1) 459

An identity thief will smile alot after he/she has got my money, so how does this help if the system can't cope with a smile and or glasses. "Smiling all the way to the bank" ring a bell? Security theater plain and simple. Another waste of my taxpaying dollars. I'll have no photo next time, or pull a peewee and use scotch tape on my face the whole time I'm there. -rich http://dev.clear-site.net/

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