VRT Rule Update for 1/24/2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 59 new rules and made modifications to 19 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.  This rule pack also introduces coverage for Snort 2.9.1.2

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
backdoor, blacklist, botnet-cnc, ddos, dos, exploit, file-identify,
oracle, policy, scada, specific-threats, sql, voip, web-activex and
web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

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