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  • Security Wire Weekly -- May 30, 2007

    Snort creator and Sourcefire founder Marty Roesch talks about last year's failed Check Point acquisition and his decision to take Sourcefire public. Also, a summary of this week's news.  News | 08 Jun 2007

  • Sourcefire, Nmap deal to open vulnerability scanning

    Sourcefire and Insecure.org have inked an agreement to develop open source vulnerability scanning tools based on Insecure's Nmap scripting engine.  Article | 23 May 2007

  • Sourcefire fixes Snort flaw

    Attackers could exploit a flaw in the popular open source Snort IDS tool to cause a denial of service or launch malicious code.  Article | 20 Feb 2007

  • Open source ID projects link up with Microsoft

    Higgins-Bandit groups develop a new open source tool that could make independent ID systems compatible with Microsoft Windows CardSpace program.  Article | 01 Feb 2007

  • Bug Briefs: OpenOffice vulnerable to attack

    Other flaws were reported in Apple QuickTime, Mac OS X, Adobe Reader, VideoLAN VLC, the Opera Web browser, and Cisco Access Control Server.  Article | 08 Jan 2007

  • Podcast: Tor peer-to-peer privacy could be hacked

    In this edition of Security Wire Weekly, Andrew Christensen of FortConsult explains how the Tor peer-to-peer network can be hacked to track down user identities.  Article | 10 Nov 2006

  • Sourcefire IPO could fuel Snort, users say

    Snort users frowned when Check Point tried to acquire Sourcefire last year. But they are more optimistic about Sourcefire's plans to go public.  Article | 07 Nov 2006

  • Sourcefire looking to go public

    The company behind the popular Snort open source IDS tool is making a bid to go public, months after its deal to be acquired by Check Point collapsed.  Article | 26 Oct 2006

  • Metasploit completes license change, updates framework

    The open source pen-testing platform is used nearly universally by security assessment firms -- even those that buy "competitive" products from Core, Immunity and others, but big licensing and platform changes are in the works.  Column | 17 Aug 2006

  • Brief: Moore releases flaw-finding tool

    On the eve of Black Hat, Metasploit Project founder H.D. Moore has released a new tool for finding vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer ActiveX controls, and an updated version of the Metasploit Framework.  Article | 02 Aug 2006

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