Category Archives: Snort

Google exposing Snort deployments

August 14, 2006 – 8:35 pm

I was setting up a Snort / Base / Barnyard box for a friend tonight. When looking in the root directory where Base was installed I didn’t see a robots.txt file. This got me thinking…I know…dangerous. Anyway, I did some Googling and in about 5 minutes I found:
5 Acid consoles
2 Base consoles
1 Open Aanval console
The […]

By Chris Harrington | Comments (1)

“0-Day” exploit for PowerPoint, Snort sigs to block .ppt files

July 14, 2006 – 9:58 pm

Just 3 days after Patch Tueday, Microsoft confirms a new vulnerability in PowerPoint that will could casue complete system compromise. To be clear, this is different than the MS06-028 PowerPoint vulnerability announced on Tuesday. Snort signatures to block PPT files are available on the blog post.

By Chris Harrington | Also posted in Security Alert | Comments Off

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