Snort IDS for Hackers, Part 3: Sending Intrusion Alerts to MySQL

Welcome back, my hacker novitiates!If you have been following this new Snort series, you know that Snort is the world's most widely used intrusion detection/protection system. Now a part of the world's largest network equipment company, Cisco, it is likely to be found everywhere in one form or another. This makes a compelling argument for learning how to use it, as it will likely be a necessity in any security-related position.In the previous tutorials in this series, we installed and configured