Friday, September 21, 2012

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 09/21/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 09/21/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 17 new rules and made modifications to 9 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank James Lay for his contributions on rule: 24224
The VRT would like to thank Eoin Miller for his contributions on rules: 24227 24228

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 browser-ie, exploit, exploit-kit, file-identify, file-multimedia, file-other, malware-cnc and web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

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