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October 8, 2009 14:16

Rule release for today - October 8th, 2009

The Sourcefire VRT is aware of a vulnerability affecting Adobe Acrobat and Reader. This is currently being exploited in the wild. A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 3, SID 16146. See here: http://www.snor

October 6, 2009 16:04

Rule release for today - October 6th, 2009

Lots of additions and modifications to web-client, specific-threats, web-misc, misc, backdoor and spyware-put rule groups in this release. Check it out here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2009/10/06/vrt-rules-2009-10-06.html

October 5, 2009 14:01

Rocket Pig still images

We also took some still photos of the Rocket Pig launch from last week. Here is Rocket Pig getting launched: And the construction and firing of the Mk 1 Big Rocket. Matt Olney, Alex Kambis and Ryan Pentney constructing the rocket: Matt Olney checking the rocket motors are secu

October 2, 2009 17:52

Rocket Pig

Here it is, for your pleasure, Rocket Pig.... BUT WAIT, there's more.... We have bigger plans, stay tuned.

September 30, 2009 12:14

Rocket Pig

Just to add a little impetus to the twitter voting, here is the rocket pig... If you want to see the video of this pig in action, retweet this blog post.

September 29, 2009 13:19

of Pigs and Rockets

It was a quiet day at Sourcefire World Domination Headquarters and somebody wasn't keeping a close eye on the stock of squishy pigs that we give out at trade shows. The VRT had just finished some intensive work and it was a fine Friday afternoon in September. We had some mode

September 17, 2009 14:13

Rule release for today - September 17, 2009

Maintenance release that adds support for shared object rules for the Snort 2.8.5 release. Also, additions to the web-client, specific-threats, web-misc, misc, oracle and exploit rule sets. More information and changelogs here

September 16, 2009 16:49

Snort 2.8.5 Release

We warned you in the August Vulnerability Report that Snort 2.8.5 was almost ready to be released. Well, today is the day. Snort 2.8.5 is now available for download. All VRT Certified rule releases will now be 2.8.5 compliant and we will cease to support 2.8.4 (in 90 days) in fa

September 15, 2009 19:52

Rule release for today - September 15, 2009

Mostly a maintenance release, we added multiple rules in the specific-threats, dns, web-client, dos, ftp and misc categories. Details here.