Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 08/30/2012, Rule Re-Categorization

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 08/30/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 24 new rules and made modifications to 43 additional rules.

There following changes were made to the snort.conf in this release:

include $RULE_PATH/app-detect.rules
include $RULE_PATH/browser-chrome.rules
include $RULE_PATH/browser-firefox.rules
include $RULE_PATH/browser-ie.rules
include $RULE_PATH/browser-other.rules
include $RULE_PATH/browser-webkit.rules
include $RULE_PATH/exploit-kit.rules
include $RULE_PATH/file-executable.rules
include $RULE_PATH/file-flash.rules
include $RULE_PATH/file-image.rules
include $RULE_PATH/file-multimedia.rules
include $RULE_PATH/malware-backdoor.rules
include $RULE_PATH/malware-cnc.rules
include $RULE_PATH/malware-other.rules
include $RULE_PATH/malware-tools.rules
include $RULE_PATH/policy-multimedia.rules


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
app-detect, botnet-cnc, browser-chrome, browser-firefox, browser-ie,
browser-other, browser-webkit, exploit, exploit-kit, file-executable,
file-flash, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office,
file-other, indicator-compromise, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc,
malware-other, malware-tools, smtp, specific-threats, spyware-put,
web-activex, web-client and web-php rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

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