Rule Release for Today - June 14th, 2010
Apple Safari RCE (CVE-2010-1939), Google Chrome GLUG bypass (CVE-2010-1663). Details available here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/06/14/vrt-rules-2010-06-14.html/
Sourcefire VRT Expansion Plans (We are Hiring)
One of the hardest things in life is finding the right place to work, where you can spend eight to ten hours a day doing something you enjoy and also pay your bills. I’ve been lucky enough in my life to find this type of place three times: HiverWorld, Farm9, and Sourcefire. Each
Rule Release for Today, June 10th, 2010
Microsoft Help and Support Center Bypass Vulnerability: Microsoft Help and Support Center contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on an affected system. The error occurs when invalid hex-encoded characters are used as a param
Rule Release for today - June 8th, 2010
Here we are again, Microsoft Tuesday for June 2010. A number of issues this month and rules to provide coverage for attack detection. Main advisory numbers for IDS/IPS coverage are MS10-033, MS10-034, MS10-035, MS10-038, MS10-039 and MS10-041. Check out the advisory and changelog
Single Threaded Data Processing Pipelines and the Intel Architecture
Or, No Performance for you, go home now. Today's blog post is a guest appearance by our Benevolent Dictator and Glorious Leader, Marty Roesch. We asked Marty for his thoughts on threading, performance and processing network data. Here's what we got: Executive Summary
Rule release for today, Tuesday May 25th, 2010
A maintenance release, new rules in web-client, web-misc, backdoor, oracle, policy and specific-threats rule sets and an extensive set of rule updates. Check it out: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/05/25/vrt-rules-2010-05-25.html/
Rule release for today, Tuesday May 18th, 2010
Changes to web-client, web-misc, backdoor, smtp and specific-threats rule sets. Check here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/05/18/vrt-rules-2010-05-18.html for change logs etc..
Vulnerability Report - May 2010
Rule release for today, Tuesday May 11th, 2010
Microsoft Tuesday folks, just two advisories today and two rules to cover them. Read all about it here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/05/11/vrt-rules-2010-05-11.html Enjoy.