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Sourcefire buys anti-malware firm Immunet

...Network security company Sourcefire is acquiring Immunet, a cloud-based anti-malware start-up, the companies... Read more

7 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

HP revamps enterprise security toolbox

...open-source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) developed by Sourcefire. As part of the overhaul, TippingPoint DVLabs security analysis now feeds into... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Next-gen firewalls go head-to-head

A pair of security vendors, Palo Alto Networks and Sourcefire, debated the various merits of their approaches to unified security live on... Read more

9 February, 2011
<endeca_term>Sourcefire</endeca_term>: Don't Snort at open-source security

Sourcefire: Don't Snort at open-source security

Sourcefire has an enviable position in the security world. Its open-source software... Read more

25 June, 2008 by Peter Judge

Adobe PDF zero-day gets homebrew patch

...Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9. The vulnerability research team at Sourcefire, which provides open-source intrusion and prevention software, published a link to... Read more

24 February, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Open source security push gets $20m

Open source security vendor Sourcefire has secured $20m (£10.6m) in funding, the company announced on Friday... Read more

2 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Snort hit by vulnerability

...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... Read more

21 February, 2007 by Richard Thurston

Check Point snorts up Sourcefire for $225m

Consolidation in the security space Check Point is to spend $225m buying Sourcefire, the company behind the open source intrusion prevention tool Snort. The Israeli... Read more

7 October, 2005 by Dan Ilett
Enabling the High-Performance Next Generation Firewall

Enabling the High-Performance Next Generation Firewall

...much faster threat response. Crossbeam Systems, working closely with Check Point and Sourcefire, has developed a tightly coupled, high-performance, scalable, and reliable Next Generation... Read more

4 April, 2008

Microsoft says security programme is speeding fixes

...monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates. MAPP partner and network security provider Sourcefire issues protections based on the information for about 95 percent of the... Read more

28 July, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Adobe fixes critical flaws in Reader, Acrobat

...a botnet, warned Matt Watchinski, director of vulnerability research at security vendor Sourcefire, who alerted Adobe to the problem. Adobe has become a target for... Read more

10 June, 2009 by Nick Booth

Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange

...Other companies integrating with Stirling include Kaspersky, Brocade, Juniper Networks, Guardium, Imperva, Sourcefire, StillSecure, Q1 Labs, and Tipping Point. The moves are part of the... Read more

16 April, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Adobe plugs Flash-player hole

...on 20 February. A patch is due by 11 March. Security company Sourcefire, which released a patch of its own, told IDG News Service that... Read more

26 February, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Barracuda bites back at Trend Micro patent claims

...its use of ClamAV — a product maintained by US open-source company Sourcefire — on the grounds that Barracuda Network's use of the software in... Read more

30 January, 2008 by Liam Tung

Back Orifice problems lead to pain for Snort

...to have more than 100,000 active users, according to figures from Sourcefire, the software's developer. Sourcefire has issued a patch, Snort version 2... Read more

27 October, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

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