Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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.
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!