Tuesday, May 22, 2012

VRT Rule Update for 05/22/2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 68 new rules and made modifications to 580 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

The VRT would like to thank Alexandre Menezes for contributing SIDs 22957 - 22960.

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 blacklist, botnet-cnc, chat, dos, exploit, file-identify, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, indicator-obfuscation, misc, oracle, policy-multimedia, policy-social, pua-p2p, pua-toolbars, scada, server-mail, shellcode, specific-threats, voip, web-activex, web-cgi, web-client, web-iis and web-php rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


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