Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 10/30/2012, Rule Recategorization

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 10/30/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 54 new rules and made modifications to 3416 additional rules.

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

ATTRIBUTION

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 blacklist, browser-firefox, browser-ie, browser-plugins, dos, exploit, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, indicator-shellcode, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, malware-tools, netbios, nntp, os-linux, os-other, os-solaris, os-windows, protocol-ftp, protocol-voip, pua-other, rpc, server-apache, server-iis, server-mail, server-mssql, server-oracle, server-other and sql rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!