Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/30/2013

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/30/2013


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 12 new rules and made modifications to 84 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-identify, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc and tftp 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!

Monday, April 29, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/25/2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/25/2013


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 26 new rules and made modifications to 12 additional rules.

There were changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

The following ports were added to the HTTP_PORTS, stream5 "both" attribute, and http_inspect's "ports" attribute line:

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The lines now look like this (for easy copy and paste):

HTTP_PORTS:
portvar HTTP_PORTS [80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,311,383,591,593,631,901,1220,1414,1741,1830,2301,2381,2809,3037,3057,3128,3702,4343,4848,5250,6080,6988,7000,7001,7144,7145,7510,7777,7779,8000,8008,8014,8028,8080,8085,8088,8090,8118,8123,8180,8181,8222,8243,8280,8300,8800,8888,8899,9000,9060,9080,9090,9091,9443,9999,11371,34443,34444,41080,50002,55555] 

Stream5:
ports both 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 110 311 383 443 465 563 591 593 631 636 901 989 992 993 994 995 1220 1414 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3057 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6080 6988 7907 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7802 7777 7779 \ 7801 7900 7901 7902 7903 7904 7905 7906 7908 7909 7910 7911 7912 7913 7914 7915 7916 \ 7917 7918 7919 7920 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8222 8243 8280 8300 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555 

http_inspect:
ports { 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 311 383 591 593 631 901 1220 1414 1741 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3057 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6080 6988 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7777 7779 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8181 8222 8243 8280 8300 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555 }

And as indicated here: http://blog.snort.org/2013/04/master-snortconf-configurations-have.html, the snort.conf configurations that we distribute have been updated.

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-other, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-multimedia, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc, scada 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!

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Master Snort.conf configurations have been updated!

I've went ahead and updated our master snort.conf examples from the VRT on the Snort.conf configuration page:

https://www.snort.org/configurations

By the way -- In case you want to find that page in the future, just remember to Google "Snort.conf configurations"  It's the first result.

VRT End-of-Life dates have been updated

As always when a new version of Snort comes out, I update the EOL date versions found here:

https://www.snort.org/eol

So, take a look there and see if you are affected, and if so, be sure and stay current and update Snort!  https://www.snort.org/downloads

Snort 2.9.4.6 has been released!

Snort 2.9.4.6 is now available on snort.org, at
https://www.snort.org/downloads in the Latest Release section.

Snort 2.9.4.6 includes changes for the following:

[*] Improvements

* Improved support for DAQ verdicts of whitelist and blacklist for 6in4 and 4in6 encapsulated traffic (similar to Teredo & GTP). See the Snort manual for configuration details.

* Avoid changing the length of IP options in frag3 when receiving duplicate 0-offset fragments that have IP options.

See the Release Notes and ChangeLog for more details.

Please submit bugs, questions, and feedback to bugs@snort.org.

Happy Snorting!
The Snort Release Team

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/23/2013

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/23/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 21 new rules and made modifications to 18 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank rmkml for their contribution in the development of rule(s):
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The VRT would like to thank Avery Tarasov for their contribution in the development of rule(s):
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The VRT would like to thank James Lay for their contribution in the development of rule(s):
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In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-plugins, dns, file-executable, file-multimedia, file-other, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-other, protocol-ftp, pua-p2p, server-oracle, server-other and telnet 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!

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/18/2013

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/18/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 36 new rules and made modifications to 237 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, browser-firefox, browser-ie, browser-plugins, dns, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, indicator-obfuscation, malware-cnc, os-linux, os-other, os-windows, protocol-voip, pua-other, server-mail, server-mssql 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!

Snort Startup Scripts for various OSes have been updated!

Many thanks to one of our very dedicated Snort Community members, William Parker.  In his guides (also posted on the documentation page of Snort.org) he has embedded some Snort Startup scripts.

Because some people are having problems with copy and pasting out of the PDF documentation, so Mr. Parker put these startup scripts in their own files and sent them to me.  I created a special section on Snort.org/docs just for startup scripts, and they are all there!

Many thanks to Mr. Parker for updating his scripts based on user feedback, and the new ones are now up.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/16/2013

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/16/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 37 new rules and made modifications to 315 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank Avery Tarasov for their contribution in the development of rule(s):
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The VRT would like to thank Yaser Mansour for their contribution in the development of rule(s):
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In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, blacklist, browser-ie, browser-other, browser-plugins, dos, exploit, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, indicator-compromise, indicator-obfuscation, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, netbios, nntp, os-windows, policy-other, policy-social, protocol-ftp, protocol-imap, protocol-voip, scada, server-iis, server-other and web-misc 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!

Monday, April 15, 2013

Integrating Snort and AlienVault OSSIM

Just added to the Docs section on Snort.org, another wonderful document by William Parker, a document that will help you integrate Snort-2.9.4.x and AlienVault's OSSIM tool.

I've listed it under the "Snort Deployment Guides" section on http://www.snort.org/docs.

Thanks William!