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Saving Our Bacon: Snort Security Holes and Strategies for Safe Network Monitoring (O'ReillyNet)

O'ReillyNet covers recent vulnerabilities in Snort along with strategies to minimize risks. "Since the main purpose of Snort is detection, a primary goal of attackers is evasion. If attacks can be structured so that they are overlooked by Snort, then system administrators will be left with a false sense of security -- arguably a worse situation than if Snort had not been used at all."
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