TrueCrypt 6.3 released

TrueCrypt has released version 6.3 of their open source, cross platform, disk encryption tool. In addition to several bug fixes and minor improvements on all platforms, the latest release features full support for Windows 7. TrueCrypt 6.3 now includes the ability to configure selected volumes as "system favourite volumes" in order to, for example, mount them before the system and application services start, or before users start logging on.

Snort 2.8.5.1 released

Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention 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.