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Sourcefire has been busy as ever keeping their second-to-none Snort® IDS/IPS system at the forefront of network security technology. Yesterday they released an update to the 2.8 family of Snort®, bringing it to version 2.8.6.1. It brings some fixes to the installer package, fixing some issues with detecting false-positives in pattern matching & FTP string format verification, and incorrect handling of empty FTP response codes to data transfer commands commands.
Snort® 2.9 has officially gone Beta. 2.9 includes a myriad of new features such as a robust IPS mode for inline deployments, a new common API for all active response, a new response module that is backward-compatible with resp and resp2 syntax, a new preprocessor for inline deployments to interpret packets the same way a host would, and a new Data Acquisition API that supports multiple packet access methods for better & easier integration with existing infrastructure, updated HTTP Inspect, updated & more robust SMTP preprocessor, the ability to test drop rules for inline mode before implementation, and greatly improved overall IPv6 support. Also new is integration with Intel’s Quick Assist technology.
Find it all and more on the release page over at Sourcefire
