Errata for Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools
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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
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Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
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Page 10
3rd paragraph |
Secure Shell (SSH) uses port 22 and NOT 23, that is for telnet
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Anonymous |
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Page 11
Last paragraph |
The TFTP port is port 69 and NOT 79
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Anonymous |
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Page 17
Figure 2-4 |
The third entry in the figure is missing the entry "Acknowledgement number"
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Anonymous |
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Page 33
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http://winsnort.com
should be
http://www.winsnort.com
Page 62 is looking for libwhisker. Alternate -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/whisker/
Page 72 is a compilation - same Alternate -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/whisker/
Chapter 4, p.72 and Appendix C, p.252
http://www.ideahamster.org/projects/operationaltools.htm
These are looking for the isecom security tools. Alternate -
http://www.isecom.org/projects/toolsandtemplates.shtml
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Anonymous |
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Page 72
Sites of Interest |
The line for "Packetstromsecurity" should read "Packetstormsecurity". The "o" and the
"r" are transposed.
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Anonymous |
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Page 99
3rd paragraph |
"support for MySQL is included by adding --with-odbc"
it should be "support for ODBC is included..."
Chapter 8, p.138
http://www.snortsam.net/files/snort-plugin/
We can change this to the general download page -
http://www.snortsam.net/download.html
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Anonymous |
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Page 188
last paragraph |
"... and select the time periord for the ..." should be
"... and select the time period for the ..."
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Anonymous |
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Page 190
2nd paragraph |
"in the futuer" should be "in the future"
Chapter 12, p.209 and Appendix C, p.253
http://www.silicondefense.com
http://www.silicondefense.com/software/snortsnarf
An alternate is the Snort website's download section -
http://www.snort.org/dl/contrib/data_analysis/snortsnarf/
Not sure what's going on with silicon defense
Chapter 13, p.223
http://squil.sourceforge.net
should be:
http://sguil.sourceforge.net/
Appendix C, p.252
http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/lw.asp
Same as libwhisker link, above - http://sourceforge.net/projects/whisker/
Appendix C, p.253
http://www.oinkmaster.sourceforge.net
The "www" seems to be the problem. Alternate -
http://oinkmaster.sourceforge.net/
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Anonymous |
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