Rule release for today - November 18th, 2009
Rules added and modified in several categories. As usual, go here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2009/11/18/vrt-rules-2009-11-18.html for the changelog.
November 2009 Vulnerability Report
Sourcefire VRT Vulnerability Report November 2009 from Sourcefire VRT on Vimeo. November Vulnerability Report. This month, Alain Zidouemba talks about Microsoft Patch Tuesday, the SSL renegotiation flaw and the iPhone worm.
Microsoft Tuesday Coverage for November 2009
A number of advisories from Microsoft this month, expect us to cover the most pressing ones in our upcoming Vulnerability Report. For now, here's a quick overview: Microsoft Security Advisory MS09-063: The Web Services on Devices API (WSDAPI) in Microsoft Windows Vista conta
DoJoSec meeting - November 5th
Tonight's DoJoSec has a change in lineup, since Lurene is on the PUP list for today, Matt Olney is stepping in to take her place and give a talk on "Custom Intrusion Detection Techniques for Monitoring Web Applications". This is something similar to the presentation
DoJoSec and DoJoCon
Tomorrow evening, starting at 6:00 pm, Capitol College, Laurel MD. Lurene Grenier will be giving a presentation on Byakugan. Following this event, on Friday morning, our Senior Director of the Vulnerability Research Team, Matt Watchinski, will be speaking at DoJoCon. Check here
Rule release for today - November 3rd, 2009
Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe, we thought you only did patch releases once per quarter, guess we were wrong. Anyway, a few vulnerabilities with Shockwave. Get your rules on here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/2009/11/03/vrt-rules-2009-11-03.html
Paranoia and the rise of fake antivirus
This weekend I got a call from my father, who wanted my advice as the computer security guy in the family. It seems that my younger sister's laptop had become infected with a nasty little virus called Block Watcher, which had popped up a series of messages telling her that he
Rule release for today - October 22nd, 2009
A few modifications in this release, most notably a fix for a false positive issue that raised it's ugly head from the Microsoft Tuesday release. Microsoft Security Advisory (MS09-059): A vulnerability in the Microsoft Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) may a
Snort 2.8.5.1 Release
Hot on the heels of the Snort 2.8.5 release, a new Snort tarball is now available that fixes a few issues: * Fixed syslog output when running on Windows. * Fixed potential segfault when printing IPv6 packets using the -v option. Thanks to Laurent Gaffie for reporting this