Snort is a network intrusion detection and prevention system. It is the most widely deployed technology of its kind in the world. It performs detection using a variety of methods including rules-based detection, anomaly detection, and heuristic analysis of network traffic. Its rules language is open source and available to the public as well.
Release Notes: The GTP preprocessor was updated to better handle GTPv1 data. The DNP3 preprocessor now has stricter packet checking. Checking in the reassembly buffer was improved. PCRE rule option processing was fixed to prevent issues seen with libpcre 8.30 and certain rules. dcerpc2 no longer aborts reassembly if the target-based protocol is undefined.
Release Tags: Minor
Tags: Networking, Monitoring
Licenses: GPL
As a company, Inktank, one of the open source ecosystem’s newest commercial enterprises, is only days old. But it has already made a determined foray into the Linux server market with the announcement this week of integration of the Ceph distributed file system into Ubuntu 12.04. [url=http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/05/15/open-source-startup-inktank-sets-gaze-on-ubuntu-server/]Here’s the scoop[/url], and what it says about both Inktank and Ubuntu.
Two years after its initial attempt to sell Nexus smartphones directly to consumers flopped, Google is apparently trying to revive the strategy. This time, though, it’s added a few new touches. It’s going to work with up to five device manufacturers at a time to create a portfolio of Nexus-line devices that include smartphones and tablets.
It’s basically the same as Mandriva 2011 "Hydrogen", but that is by design.
While IP battles might not concern lesser players, the ones among the tech titans hurt us all by creating an atmosphere of uncertainty in the market.
If you are using dual booting (windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04) on your PC/Laptop and want to mount automatically Windows NTFS partitions in Ubuntu. this tutorial is going to show you how Mount Automatically NTFS Drive in Ubuntu 12.04.
So, the new HTC phones are facing delays in the US, and they now ship with a slightly modified US-specific Android build which removes data tapping and sports an altered app associations screen to avoid Apple’s patents. This is step one. Step two is companies avoiding the litigious and anti-consumer messes that are the US and German markets altogether. Clearly, IP laws are working to the benefit of the consumer and the market as a whole. Great work guys.
Wildfire Games has released the tenth alpha version of 0 A.D., an open source, historical real-time strategy game which features excellent graphics and sound. The new alpha brings Hellenic factions, basic technologies, civilization phases, click-and-drag wall building functionality, healing and more.
FXI’s Cotton Candy, A $200 USB stick size PC running Ubuntu and Android 4.0 will start shipping at the end of this month to anyone who has pre-ordered the device in back in February.
A lot of companies have chosen to blacklist certain Apps. The question is, “Does it do any good?” There’s a new threat on the horizon perpetrated by none other than The Corporate Machine: App Blacklisting. Seriously. There are Apps researched by and supplied by Zenprise that have been blacklisted, whitelisted and others that are in the undecided list.
