We are very pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 1.5. This version comes with lots of bug fixes and new features, including:
-New log formats (info):

Solaris BSM auditing logs
Asterisk logs
Checkpoint and Smart Defense logs
Debian package (dpkg) install/status/remove messages
Shorewall logs
Postfix SASL error messages
Localized pure-ftpd messages (for 12 different languages)
DJB multilog

-Greek translation of the install.
-Added […]

The OSSEC project is now an official partner/sponsor of the The Academy.
They already have videos showing how to install OSSEC (on Unix and Windows) and will be giving away a copy of the new OSSEC book to one of their registered users. More information at their site.
About The Academy:
The Academy is a web site willing […]

The first OSSEC book (OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection Guide) is officially out and available on the best bookstores. You can also buy it online at amazon.
About the book:
This book is the definitive guide on the OSSEC Host-based Intrusion Detection system and frankly, to really use OSSEC you are going to need a definitive guide. Documentation […]

We are pleased to announce the public availability of OSSEC Web UI (oswui) version 0.3. This new version comes with a new design, lots of bug fixes, speed improvements and a major code reorganization. Some of the bugs fixed include: 67. 89. 90, 91, 103, 114-117 from our bugzilla.
Installation instructions available at: Wiki OSSECWUI:Install
Download it […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 1.4. This
version comes with the following major new features:

Support for reading database logs from PostgreSQL and MySQL (info)
Support for Prelude (info)
Support for storing the alerts on MySQL and PostgreSQL (info)
Support for Sonicwall logs, HP-UX ftpd, AIX 5.3 syslog ,etc

Plus lots of bug fixes and […]

During the month of May Daniel Cid went to AusCERT and Confidence to talk about OSSEC (i.e. Log analysis using OSSEC). On both presentations he mentioned LIDS (Log-Based intrusion detection), and provided an overview of the ossec architecture and how to write decoders and rules.
If you want to learn a bit more about ossec, take […]

LinuxWorld released the article Top 5 open source security tools in the enterprise and OSSEC was chosen number 1.
With thousands of open source security packages available, choices can be confusing. Here’s the short list of tools that are getting real-world successful deployments.
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I’ve selected OSSEC HIDS as the No. 1 open source tool due to […]