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The BASE project team is thrilled to announce that BASE 1.4.4 (dawn) has been released. This release fixes a number of bugs in previous versions as well has contains security fixes. As such, the BASE project team recommends that this is applied as soon as possible.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE project team

Jabra found a few more XSS flaws that have been fixed in this point release.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE project team would like to announce the immediate release of BASE 1.4.3 (gabi) This release fixes a number of XSS flaws as well as a potential SQL injection flaw. All users must upgrade as these flaws have existed through numerous releases of BASE.

The BASE project team is proud to announce that the latest version of BASE has been released. BASE 1.4.2 (chandy) contains a large number of bug fixes and as such should be installed as soon as possible.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE project team

The BASE project team is proud to announce the immediate release of BASE 1.4.1 (lara). This release fixes a number of bugs. We recommend highly that all users of BASE upgrade.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE project team

The BASE project team is happy to announce that BASE 1.4.0 (katherine) has been released. This version is available now from http://sourceforge.net/projects/base

In this release we have fixed a number of bugs and added a world map feature.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE project team

The BASE project team is proud to announce the immediate availability of 1.3.9 (anne). This release contains a fix for a XSS vulnerability as well as bug fixes and new install documentation.

We are also proud to announce that this is the first release co-led by Sean Muller.

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Kevin Johnson, Sean Muller and the BASE project team

The BASE project team is proud to announce the immediate availability of 1.3.8 (jodie). This release fixes a security hole and a number of other bugs.

Thanks and Congrats Jordan and family.
Kevin

The BAASE project team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the 1.3.6 (louise) release.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE team

The BASE project team is proud to announce that 1.3.5 (marie) is now available for download.

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The BASE project team is proud to announce that 1.2.7 (karen) is now available.

The BASE project team is proud to announce the immediate release of BASE 1.2.6 (christine). A number of bugs have been fixed with this release.

Thanks for your continued support.
Kevin and the BASE project team

The BASE project gteam is proud to announce that 1.2.5 is now available for download.

BASE 1.2.4 has been released and is available now. This release probably has the most bug fixes of all of the previous releases.

Please check out the release notes.

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The BASE project team is proud to annouce that BASE 1.2.2 (cindy) is available for download. This version adds the Turkish language and fixes a number of bugs. It also completes the SQL injection fixes.

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The BASE project team is happy to announce the release of BASE 1.2.1 (kris). This release fixes a form of SQL injection that ACID and BASE have been vulnerable too.

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Kevin Johnson and the BASE project team

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/snort_base.html

The BASE project team is proud to announce the immediate release of BASE 1.2 (betty) This release includes a number of bug fixes and some new features added by our users.

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Kevin and the BASE project team

The BASE team has released the latest version of code. This release is in honor of Joel Esler, who has left the team to join the Sourcefire company.

Joel, Thanks!

BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a SNORT IDS system. The BASE project team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the 1.1.3(lynn) release. This release includes a number of performance increases along with a number of bug fixes. We have also included support for Oracle. Along with this, we have increased our translations to include Simplified Chinese and Czech! ... read more

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http://www.varbusiness.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163105275

By Kevin Carlson, VARBusiness
VARBusiness, Mon. May. 23, 2005

From the May 30, 2005 VARBusiness

Intrusion-detection systems (IDSs) are the solution for systems administrators looking to protect their servers from hackers' attempts to gain access.

While an administrator with good security knowledge has typically configured firewalls and ensured that unnecessary services aren't running, that only protects against hacks you've anticipated. To approach server security in a proactive, rather than passive, manner, IDSs are the better way to go.... read more

Thanks to Kevin, We've added a Red Theme. Please see our file release "Red theme" for further info!

In our file release section, we have released a new Install Guide written by Patrick Harper (Thanks Patrick for supporting our project).

No doubt, you already have a network security toolkit, and that toolkit probably changes as your network environment changes. One item that you might want to consider adding to your toolkit is the Network Security Toolkit (NST), which is a project developed and maintained by Ron Henderson and Paul Blankenbaker. The NST is available as a bootable CD-ROM or an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) downloadable im-age. It contains a variety of popular security tools, some of which you might already use and some of which you might not yet know about.... read more