Jul 6 2010
Swinedroid, Snort Monitoring tool, available on the Android Market
Swinedroid v0.20 has been released is now available on the Android Market. If you haven’t read my previous post about it, here’s the low down. Swinedroid is a remote Snort monitoring application for Android. Currently, it allows you to view server threat statistics, display the latest alerts, search alerts (by alert severity, signature name, time frame) and view alert details (including a hex dump if available). It consists of two components: the client – which runs on your Android device, and the server – which runs on the system you wish to monitor (or a third party server that can access the snort server db port). The server provides statistics requested by the client over a secure and authenticated SSL link.
Since the last (non-market) release, I’ve introduced a server threat graph (thaks to AChartEngine), alert detail breakdown, SSL authenticity negotiation, functional alert browsing, a more helpful launcher screen, and crash fixes.
Having an Android Snort monitoring application can prove handy for a variety of situations where access to web-based clients is either unavailable or inconvenient. Since this is a monitoring tool that runs natively in Android, it will also be possible to recieve notifications based on alert statistics – a feature I plan to implement at some stage. Also upcoming is alert tagging and deleting functionality, more advanced alert statistics, attacker profiling (including reverse DNS / location information), and more. If you have suggestions, please post your feedback.
Download the client app here.
Download the server here.
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