VRT Rule Release Feed
We have added a news feed for our rule release advisories, you can get it here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisoryfeed.xml It is very basic, but it will help keep track of new snort rule releases.
Microsoft Tuesday Coverage for November
Not a huge month for Microsoft problems this time around. There are two interesting sets vulnerabilities though, one in XML Core Services (MS08-069) and the other in SMB (MS08-068). We have released rules for attack coverage and you can find details at vrt-rules-2008-11-11.html
Advanced Windows Buffer Overflow 5
Time for more pain. I like this one. It'll be different than the last few, and might involve a bit of a brain stretch for those not familiar with exploit techniques that differ from the norm. It'll hurt. There's a bit of basic reversing, but that's not the proble
White Paper on the MS08-067 vulnerability and the associated malware
Matt Olney, Alain Zidouemba and Lurene Grenier of the Sourcefire VRT have collated their analysis of the DCE/RPC vulnerability announced in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067. A white paper that discusses this issue is now available on snort.org at the following address: http:
Update on Snort and ClamAV for ms08-067
There's been a lot of action on the MS08-067 front over the weekend, so we thought we'd bring you up to date on the bug in general, and how Snort and ClamAV are providing specific detection. Interestingly, things are rolling out about the way we expected them to. We happe
Why 114 rules for MS08-067?
With the release of Sourcefire's coverage for MS08-067, I've heard the same question repeatedly. "Why 114 rules? They were able to do it with just one." Since I wrote these rules, I'm the best to explain my solution. I will not be going over the explicit na
Out of Band Microsoft Security Advisory MS08-067
Today, Microsoft released an out of band patch for a vulnerability concerning DCE/RPC that is being actively exploited by a Trojan. We were busy today :D Details on what we were busy with are available here: http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/vrt-rules-2008-10-23.html More de
Introduction to Network Penetration Testing
Overview In an effort to broaden the audience and topic base for the VRT blog, this week we are going to take a very high level view of what a network penetration test looks like from the tester's perspective. Some of the techniques and ideas behind a high-level network pene
Mac Transitions - Fixing Files
In the transition from Linux to Mac, I also ran across a small problem with Mac formatted text files on remote Linux machines. Line endings. I had assumed (and we all know what that means) that the Mac running OS X, being as it's userland roots lie firmly in the BSD camp, wou