Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 07/19/2012
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 110 new rules and made modifications to 35 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.The VRT would like to thank Mark Parsons for his contributions, research, and providing traffic captures for the development of sids 23492 and 23493.
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, botnet-cnc, chat, dos, exploit, file-identify, file-office,
file-other, file-pdf, ftp, policy, smtp, specific-threats, web-client
and web-php rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.
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