redBorder IPS announcement

From Jaime Nebrera:

I would like to take the opportunity to present redBorder IPS, a new Ruby on Rails based Open Source project around our venerable Snort.
redBorder IPS is a self contained Linux distribution with two different roles:

As a Manager provides the following capabilities in a centralized manner:

• Event view and storage, based on Snorby with a few enhancements
• Hierarchical management of multiple sensor configurations (basic networking services, basic Snort configuration) based on Chef with our own recipes and web front end
• Very powerful rule management system (configuration, inheritance, updating, multiple feeds, …)
• SNMP monitoring for generic system capabilities (CPU Load, RAM usage, …) as well as specific Snort parameters (Alerts, KPPS, CPU, …)
• Advanced user management with roles, inheritance and auditing

As a Sensor provides the following capabilities:

• Customized and hardened CentOS 6.2 system with all needed packets
• Latest Snort & pf_ring versions
• IPS mode running on top of pf_ring with specific performance enhancements and capability to drop packets within pf_ring itself
• New IDS Forwarding mode running on top of pf_ring reflecting the packets at kernel level and sending a copy to Snort maintaining the capability to drop packets within pf_ring
• IDS mode running on top of clustered pf_ring
• In all cases, we have sponsored the enhancement of Snort DAQ to be able to analyze multiple segments from the same Snort instance and load balance between all available cores, thus granting better hardware usage
• Support for Bypass (Fail to wire) cards from Silicom

We would like to thank Sourcefire team for Snort, Dustin Webber for Snorby, the seed we needed to accomplish in time our daunting task, Luca Deri and Alfredo Cardigliano from ntop.org for their great job porting DAQ to the latest pf_rinf and some performance and clustering enhancements, Opscode team for Chef and Silicom team for their support and experience managing their great cards. Without all of them this project would not have been possible.

Of course, we would also want to give a huge thank you to Produban and Nextel, the two sponsors of all of the developments done up to now. Without them, and without their approval to release this contributions to the public this project would not exist.

All of this is available at the project website, www.redborder.net.

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We love the fact that such a large community of IPS configurations (especially load balanced!) is springing up around Snort.  This community is awesome!

Sourcefire of course warns you that using this is at your own risk and your milage may vary.  We think all projects surrounding Snort are a great addition to the community.

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/28/2012

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/28/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 16 new rules and made modifications to 12 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank Eoin Miller for his contributions on sids: 23218-23225

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
backdoor, botnet-cnc, dos, file-office, indicator-obfuscation,
shellcode, specific-threats, sql, web-activex 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/26/2012

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/26/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 34 new rules and made modifications to 257 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank James Lay for his contributions on sid: 23179

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
bad-traffic, file-identify, file-office, file-other,
indicator-compromise, policy, policy-other, web-activex 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/21/2012

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/21/2012


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 5 new rules and made modifications to 33 additional rules.


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



In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
botnet-cnc, exploit, file-identify, file-office, file-pdf,
specific-threats, web-activex, web-client, web-iis and web-php 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/19/2012

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/19/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 11 new rules and made modifications to 349 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
file-identify, file-other, file-pdf, netbios, rpc, scada, smtp,
specific-threats, sql, web-cgi, web-client, web-iis and web-php 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/15/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/15/2012
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 6 new rules and made modifications to 2 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. 

Details: The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, indicator-obfuscation and sql 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/13/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/13/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 16 new rules and made modifications to 204 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. 

Details: The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the backdoor, botnet-cnc, dns, dos, exploit, file-identify, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, imap, indicator-compromise, misc, mysql, netbios, oracle, policy, policy-other, policy-social, pop3, server-mail, specific-threats, sql, telnet, web-activex 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/12/2012

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/12/2012


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 31 new rules and made modifications to 88 additional rules.


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


In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
The Sourcefire VRT is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from
Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems and MySQL.

Details:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-037:
Microsoft Internet Explorer contains programming errors that may allow
a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 23116 through 23118,
23121 through 23126 and 23128.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-038:
The Microsoft .NET implementation contains a programming error that may
allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 23127.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-039:
The Microsoft toStaticHTML API contains a programming error that may
allow a remote attacker to execute a cross-site scripting attack
against a client.

Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability are included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SIDs 23136 and 23137.

Adobe Security Bulletin APSB12-14:
Adobe Flash Player contains programming errors that may allow a remote
attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 23129 through 23135.

MySQL Authentication Bypass (CVE-2012-2122):
MySQL contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to
gain privileged access to a database installation.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 23115.

Additionally, the Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules
in the backdoor, bad-traffic, botnet-cnc, chat, deleted, dos, exploit,
file-office, file-other, imap, indicator-obfuscation, misc, mysql,
netbios, policy, server-mail, shellcode, smtp, snmp, specific-threats,
sql, web-client 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!

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/08/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/08/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 14 new rules and made modifications to 122 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. 

Details: The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the backdoor, botnet-cnc, dos, exploit, file-office, imap, netbios, pop3, smtp, specific-threats, spyware-put 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!

VRT Rule Update for 06/05/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 06/05/2012 We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 40 new rules and made modifications to 1876 additional rules.

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

 The VRT would like to thank Eoin Miller for his contributions in the rule: 23058

 In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. 

Details: The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the backdoor, bad-traffic, blacklist, botnet-cnc, content-replace, dns, dos, exploit, file-identify, file-office, ftp, indicator-compromise, indicator-obfuscation, misc, policy, policy-other, rpc, server-mail, specific-threats, spyware-put and web-client 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!