Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 05/21/2013
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 57 new rules and made modifications to 68 additional rules.
Port 10000 was added to the snort.conf for http_inspect, stream5, and HTTP_PORTS. The Example VRT snort.conf's have been updated: https://www.snort.org/configurations.
The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions:
Avery Tarasov
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James Lay
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Paul Bottomley
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In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-firefox, browser-ie, browser-plugins, browser-webkit, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, file-pdf, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-windows, protocol-ftp, pua-adware 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!