Host-based IDS OSSEC 2.3 released

The OSSEC team is pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 2.3.

The most notable additions are:

• Added support for the Nginx web server.
• Added support for Suhosin (Hardened PHP).
• Added support for real time integrity monitoring on Windows systems.
• Added support for monitoring the output of commands on Linux and Windows.
• Added rules for PHP Warnings/errors.
• Added support for Windows environment variables in the field of log monitoring.
• Added check to avoid reading the same log file twice on incorrect configurations.
• Added new rule to detect comment spam on WordPress.
• Added dovecot rules and decoders.
• Added rules to alert on login events from MS SQL.
• Added support for foregroung mode.

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