Tuesday, March 6, 2012

VRT Rule Release for 03/06/2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 44 new rules and made modifications to 38 additional rules.

 There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

 The VRT would like to thank Nathan Fowler for his updates to the following rule:
1:21417 <-> SPECIFIC-THREATS hostile PDF associated with Laik exploit kit

 In VRT's rule release:
Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. 
Details: The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the botnet-cnc, dos, exploit, file-identify, netbios, policy, scada, specific-threats, tftp, web-activex and web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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