Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 08/28/2012
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 69 new rules and made modifications to 357 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to the following rules:
24017 -- James Lay & Nathan Fowler
24031,24032,24033,24034 -- Alexandre Menezes
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, dos, exploit, file-office, file-other,
indicator-compromise, indicator-obfuscation, netbios, policy-other,
policy-social, specific-threats, web-activex, web-client and web-php
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.
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