Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/25/2013

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/25/2013


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 34 new rules and made modifications to 25 additional rules.

There were two changes made to the snort.conf in this release:
Port 3443 was added to HTTP_PORTS, Stream5 both, and http_inspect
Port 50000 was added to HTTP_PORTS, Stream5 both, and http_inspect

The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:

Avery Tarasov
26984

Nathan Fowler
26985

I've went ahead and updated our master snort.conf examples from the VRT on the Snort.conf configuration page: https://www.snort.org/configurations

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, browser-other, browser-plugins, deleted, exploit-kit, file-other, malware-cnc, os-mobile, protocol-dns, protocol-ftp, protocol-imap, protocol-tftp and server-webapp 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!