Snort is an open source 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. The site contains: news about snort; mailing lists about snort; user groups of snort; and a snort signature database.

What is Packet Storm: Packet Storm is an extremely large and current security tools resource. Packet-Storm is a non-profit organization comprised of security professionals dedicated to providing the information necessary to secure the World's networks. Packet-Storm accomplishes this goal by publishing new security information on a worldwide network of websites. The site contains: news headlines; discussion groups; vulnerability and exploit assessments; list of defenses for various systems; various papers on ITS; links to magazines; miscellaneous information on viruses, telephony, programming, Trojans, new IT releases, and IRC.

SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development website, with the largest repository of open source code and applications available on the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to open source developers.

A site dedicated to the testing of Biometrics. The site contains: analysis of biometric devices, methods of disabling or bypassing biometric devices, free downloads, and links to related sites.

On this page you can download the article and presentation on the vulnerabilities of biometrical fingerprint recognition.

This site is a web posting of a paper called Impact of Artificial "Gummy" Fingers on Fingerprint Systems by: Tsutomu Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Koji Yamada, Satoshi Hoshino at the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences of Yokohama National University Japan.

Article entitled Fingerprint Follies and the Superman/Clark Kent Biometric Conundrum

This site provides information on intrusion detection solutions, management and approaches. This is valuable support for the Information Protection Area of IT Security.