Thursday, December 5, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/05/2013

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/05/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 8 new rules and made modifications to 38 additional rules.

There was one change made to the snort.conf in this release:

Port 9111 was added to HTTP_PORTS, http_inspect, and stream5 both.

The Snort.confs on the example page have been updated:
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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In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-ie, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, file-pdf, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-windows and server-webapp 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!