Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 09/24/2013
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 96 new rules and made modifications to 40 additional rules.
There were three changes made to the
snort.conf in this release. The following ports were added to http_inspects "ports" line, stream5's "both" line, and the HTTP_PORTS variable:8509
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The example VRT snort.conf's have been updated at the following address:
https://www.snort.org/configurations
The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:
Avery Tarasov:
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28004
28012
Yaser Mansour:
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28006 (Also special thanks to Avery Tarasov for writing almost the same rule)
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James Lay:
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28011
In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, blacklist, browser-ie, deleted, exploit-kit, file-identify, file-office, file-other, indicator-compromise, indicator-obfuscation, indicator-scan, malware-cnc, malware-other, malware-tools and smtp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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