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Summary: SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Security Comm. Networks. (2010)
Published online in Wiley InterScience
(www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/sec.186
Updating snort with a customized controller to thwart port
scanning
Wassim El-Hajj1,
, Hazem Hajj2
, Zouheir Trabelsi1
and Fadi Aloul3
1
College of Information Technology, UAE University, UAE
2
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
3
Department of Computer Engineering, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Summary
Wired and wireless networks are being attacked and hacked on continuous basis. One of the critical pieces of
information the attacker needs to know is the open ports on the victim's machine, thus the attacker does what
is called port scanning. Port scanning is considered one of the dangerous attacks that intrusion detection tries to
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