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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

End-of-Life Announcement for Open-Source Snort2 and Strategic Security Updates for Snort3

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Today we are announcing lifecycle updates regarding open-source Snort2, along with development updates and details on upcoming releases for ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

End of Life Announcement for versions of Snort 2 AND Snort 3

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Multiple versions of Snort 2 and Snort 3 have reached End of Life and we will no longer publish Snort Talos Rules for these versions as of t...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

End of Life Announcement for Multiple Versions of Snort 2 and Snort 3

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Multiple versions of Snort 2 and Snort 3 will be reaching End of Life this year. As of 12/18/2025 the following versions of Snort 2 will hav...
Friday, April 4, 2025

Adding Improved Wide String Detection to Snort 3

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By Chris Morrison In Snort 3.6.2.0, the team has added new modifiers for the "content” option to simplify detection against multi-byte ...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Changes to the Snort Sample IP Block List

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Effective today, we have made some changes to the Snort Sample IP Block List available on Snort.org The Snort Sample IP Blocklist has been a...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Upcoming changes to the Snort.org Sample IP Blocklist

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We will be making some changes to the Snort Sample IP Block List on Sept. 26, 2024.  The Snort Sample IP Blocklist has been a steady compone...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Watch: SnortML Training video

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We recently launched SnortML – our new machine learning exploit detection engine designed to detect novel attacks fitting known vulnerabili...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Talos launching new machine learning-based exploit detection engine

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By Brandon Stultz. Every day, new vulnerabilities are discovered in the software critical to the function of the modern world. Security a...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Snort 2.9.8.3 and Snort 2.9.13.0 End of Life

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We are announcing the end of life for Talos rules in the following versions of Snort 2: Snort 2.9.8.3 Snort 2.9.13.0 Snort 2.9.8.3 Rules: T...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

ICS protocol coverage using Snort 3 service inspectors

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By Jared Rittle. With more devices on operational technology (OT) networks now getting connected to wide-reaching IT networks, it is more im...
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