Rule release for today, Thursday April 15th, 2010
Maintenance release, a few new rules and modifications to existing ones. Check here for details.
April 2010 Vulnerability Report
Rule release for today, Tuesday April 13th, 2010
Microsoft Tuesday and Adobe Quarterly Patch. Details available here. Microsoft Security Advisory (MS10-019): The Microsoft CAB Subject Interface Package (SIP) implementation contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to bypass the authentication mechanism. Mi
Rule release for today, Thursday April 8th, 2010
Mostly some small fixes, couple of reference changes and some new rules. Check it out here
WTF, Ubuntu?
I just finished installing Ubuntu 9.10 server edition on a shiny new Dell PowerEdge R805 box, as part of expanding our malware analysis labs. No big deal - half an hour of babysitting an installer, right? Wrong. It took me 5 hours, thanks to some really stupid decisions made by
Matt's Primer for PDF Analysis
For obvious reasons, the VRT has been spending a lot of time on the PDF format lately. While the attack researchers have been concentrating on fuzzing, reverse engineering and data flow analysis, the defense researchers have been automating the backend analysis of PDF submissions
What in the name!...
If you are confused by the naming of ClamAV products, here's a quick breakdown: * ClamAV®: open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. Available here. * ClamAV® (Win32 binaries): Win32 port of ClamAV. Availa
New Mac OSX Module for Snort
Today, the VRT is excited to announce a revolutionary new module for the Snort Intrusion Detection System. The extraordinary capability of Snort to be molded through rules, so_rules, preprocessors and the fact that the entire code base is open gives us unprecedented capability t
Rule release for today - March 30th, 2010
Microsoft Security Advisory (MS10-018): Microsoft Internet Explorer contains several programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Details here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2010/03/30/vrt-rules-2010-03-30.html