Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 10/21/2014

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 10/21/2014

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 27 new rules and made modifications to 8 additional rules.

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

Talos's rule release:
The VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-firefox, browser-ie, file-identify, file-other, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-other, os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
As a reminder:  Snort 2.9.6.1 is now EOL, please update to 2.9.6.2.

In order to subscribe now to Talos'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 https://www.snort.org/products. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!