Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/04/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/04/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 41 new rules and made modifications to 18 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release. Make sure you are using the most updated version of Snort and the correct snort.conf

The VRT would like to thank Avery Tarasov for his work on 24886 and 24885

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, deleted, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-office, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-windows, server-iis, server-mysql, server-oracle, server-other, server-webapp and web-client rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!