Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 07/16/2013

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 07/16/2013


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 40 new rules and made modifications to 166 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:

Avery Tarasov
27180
27181
27199
27200
27201
27202
27204

James Lay
27203


In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-java, file-office, file-other, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-linux, os-windows, policy-social, protocol-imap, server-oracle, server-other and sql 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!