Rule release for today - October 20th, 2009
A maintenance release this week, with several new rules in web-client, specific-threats, web-misc, oracle, smtp and dos rule sets. As always, the changelogs are available here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2009/10/20/vrt-rules-2009-10-20.html
October 2009 Vulnerability Report
Sourcefire VRT Vulnerability Report October 2009 from Sourcefire VRT on Vimeo. Sourcefire VRT Vulnerability Report This month's report covers the Microsoft Tuesday advisories, including IIS FTP vuln, SMBv2 remote code execution and Adobe patch Tuesday.
How does malware know the difference between the virtual world and the real world?
It is no secret that the Information Security industry takes advantage of virtualization software in order to research security threats. VMWare, Sandboxie, Virtual PC, Anubis, CWSandbox, JoeBox, VirtualBox, Parallels, QEMU are just just of few of these virtual machines. The cornu
Microsoft Tuesday Coverage for October 2009
Bumper crop of vulnerabilities patched this month by Microsoft and Adobe. Microsoft Security Advisory (MS09-050): A vulnerability in the way that Microsoft Windows systems process SMBv2.0 transactions may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. A rule to
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
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
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
Rocket Pig
Here it is, for your pleasure, Rocket Pig.... BUT WAIT, there's more.... We have bigger plans, stay tuned.
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.