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    Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers said this week.

    Snort's popularity has grown as many businesses have been tempted away from expensive proprietary intrusion-detection systems. Advocates of Snort argue that it is more secure than products created by network gear makers such as Cisco Systems because its code is open for developers to both find and fix flaws.

    But on Monday, Sourcefire, the company behind Snort, said that hackers could potentially execute malicious code on a system running Snort and gain access to confidential data.

    Monday, March 5, 2007 4:46 AM

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    never heard of this thing... this proves one point open source or paid stuff everything in this world is vulnerable...
    Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:03 PM
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    yea... even me... i got this piece of info in a blog ..
    Friday, March 16, 2007 2:07 PM

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    never heard of this thing... this proves one point open source or paid stuff everything in this world is vulnerable...
    Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:03 PM
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    yea... even me... i got this piece of info in a blog ..
    Friday, March 16, 2007 2:07 PM