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August 25, 2010 13:24

Rule Release for Today, Wednesday August 25th, 2010

Adobe, vulnerabilities in Director, no kidding. Who would've thought that? Well, rules are out. Check it out here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/08/25/vrt-rules-2010-08-25.html

August 18, 2010 16:00

Rule Release for Today, Wednesday August 18th, 2010

Maintenance release this one, some new rules, some modifications, check it out here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/08/18/vrt-rules-2010-08-18.html

August 16, 2010 11:06

ClamAV Release Announcements

ClamAV for Windows 2.0 has officially launched. This version contains a new GUI, numerous new detection features, a new prevention engine, and a ton of other features. Check out ClamAV for Windows 2.0 (here) New Features Include: * New GUI - Completely new UI for a better user

August 13, 2010 11:26

Malware on Android? Big deal!

Malware and Google's Android OS are two of my favorite things to play with. You would think that when I heard that there was a Trojan in the wild targeting Android devices, I'd be all over it. Indeed, I was. But I was not happy because I just don't like the sound of &

August 12, 2010 17:28

Rule Release for Today, Thursday August 12th, 2010

Adobe, HP and Symantec products have issues, we have rules, check it out here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/08/12/vrt-rules-2010-08-12.html

August 12, 2010 16:58

Snort 2.9 Essentials: The DAQ

The recently released Snort 2.9 Beta introduces the Data AcQuisition library (DAQ), for packet I/O. The DAQ replaces direct calls into packet capture libraries like PCAP with an abstraction layer that make it easy to add additional software or hardware packet capture implementati

August 10, 2010 17:06

Quick analysis of a webpage leveraging CVE-2010-1885 (aka the help and support center vulnerability)

In a previous blog post I was writing about an increase in attacks against an at the time, un-patched vulnerability. Microsoft patched it on July 13, which doesn't mean that people aren't still trying to own un-patched machines.goodgirlsbadguys.com (213.155.12.144) is a d

August 10, 2010 15:31

Rule Release for Today, Tuesday August 10th, 2010

Microsoft Security Advisory MS10-046: Microsoft Windows Shell contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Previously released rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities have been updated with the appropriate refer

August 3, 2010 18:13

Rule Release for Today, Tuesday August 3rd, 2010

A dded and modified multiple rules in the exploit, ftp, imap, mysql, netbios, rpc, specific-threats, sql, web-activex, web-client, web-iis, web-misc and web-php rule sets. Check here for details: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/08/03/vrt-rules-2010-08-03.html