Tuesday, February 7, 2012

VRT Rule Release for 02/07/2012 -- Thanks Jason Wallace

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 70 new rules and made modifications to 64 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

 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, exploit, file-identify, misc, netbios, policy, shellcode, specific-threats, tftp, web-activex and web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
The VRT would like to acknowledge Jason Wallace's work in submitting the framework for the following rules:

21246
21255
21256
21257

It's great to have community involvement in the ruleset!

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