Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT)
Sourcefire VRT is a group of leading-edge network security experts working around the clock to proactively discover, assess, and respond to the latest trends in hacking activities, intrusion attempts, malware and vulnerabilities. Some of the most renowned security professionals in the industry, including the ClamAV Team and authors of several standard security reference books, are members of Sourcefire VRT. This team is supported by the vast resources of the open source Snort and ClamAV communities, making it the largest group dedicated to advances in the network security industry.
The VRT develops and maintains the official rule set of Snort.org. Each rule is developed and tested using the same rigorous standards VRT uses for Sourcefire customers. The VRT also maintains shared object rules that are distributed for many platforms in binary format. To request additional platforms for inclusion send email to research at sourcefire dot com listing the platform required.
From our Blogs
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Rule release for today - March 17th, 2010
A maintenance release mostly, lots of changes to rules and quite a few deletions. Two new r ...
Posted by Nigel Houghton on Mar 17, 2010
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The New Disclosure Debate and the Evil Mr. Moore
So, let's pretend you are Rob, Mr. Head of IT, and that you are sitting in your office on M ...
Posted by Matt Olney on Mar 16, 2010
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Rule release for today - March 10th, 2010
Microsoft Internet Explorer (2010-0806): Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a programming ...
Posted by Nigel Houghton on Mar 11, 2010
VRT Vulnerability Report
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
Latest Advisories
- VRT Rules 2010-03-17
- VRT Rules 2010-03-10
- VRT Rules 2010-03-09
- VRT Rules 2010-03-04
- VRT Rules 2010-02-26
Advisory Index
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March 2010 Vulnerability Report