VRT Rule Update for 03/27/2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 26 new rules and made modifications to 297 additional rules.

This rule release provides support for Snort 2.9.2.2 which has just been released.

There was one change made to the snort.conf in this release, just a modification to this line:
preprocessor ftp_telnet: global inspection_type stateful encrypted_traffic no

 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, multimedia, netbios, phishing-spam, specific-threats, spyware-put, sql and web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

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