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Snort for Mac

Network intrusion detection system.

Free
In English
Version 3.1.39.0

Snort overview

Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient.

What’s new in version 3.1.39.0

  • cmake: add --enable-luajit-static option to enable LuaJit linked statically
  • http_inspect: request and response shouldn't be available for pkt_data
  • ips_options: remove obfuscate_pii caching in sd_pattern option
  • main, managers: remove the reload_module command
  • netflow: pass a flag if the initiator and responder were swapped
  • parser: remove 138 from builtin GID exceptions
  • rna: Added log message for missing 'rna.conf' path
  • utils: fix compilation warning [-Wcomma]
  • utils: fix JS split to reflect tokens correction and re-normalization
  • utils: validate escaped JavaScript identifiers

Snort for Mac

Free
In English
Version 3.1.39.0
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Archiethearchiver
Archiethearchiver
Oct 11 2019
2.9.15
0.0
Oct 11 2019
0.0
Version: 2.9.15
Probably a MacUpdate typo: The system requirements are Mac OS 10.15 or later not 10.1.5 or later!!
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Mar 16 2015
2.9.2
0.0
Mar 16 2015
0.0
Version: 2.9.2
The current version, dated March 10, 2015, v2.9.7.2. The Change Log is here: https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/changelog_2.9.7.2.txt The Release Notes are here: https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/release_notes_2.9.7.2.txt As usual, note that Snort requires compilation. There is no Mac binary.
SickTeddyBear
SickTeddyBear
Jan 19 2012
2.9.2
0.0
Jan 19 2012
0.0
Version: 2.9.2
There are no OS X binaries for this. You must compile from source manually, or use MacPorts, Fink, or Pkgsrc.
Guest
Guest
Oct 4 2004
1.9.0
0.0
Oct 4 2004
0.0
Version: 1.9.0
Problems compiling? Use HenWen http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8014
Guest
Guest
Oct 4 2004
1.9.0
0.0
Oct 4 2004
0.0
Version: 1.9.0
Current version on Snort site is v2.2.0. License is GPL, not shareware.
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