Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 03/21/2013

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 03/21/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 0 new rules and made modifications to 143 additional rules.

There following changes were made to the snort.conf in this release:
Port 110 was added to the "stream5 both" parameter
Port 631 was added to HTTP_PORTS, http_inspect, and stream5's reassembly
Port 8222 was added to HTTP_PORTS, http_inspect, and stream5's reassembly
Port 70 was added to the "stream5 client" parameter

The correct VRT recommended configuration snort.conf's are here:
https://www.snort.org/configurations

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, blacklist, exploit, exploit-kit, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, indicator-obfuscation, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-other, policy-other, policy-spam, pua-adware, server-mysql, 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!