Following our February announcement of OpenAppId at RSA, we released an alpha version of Snort 2.9.7.0. Response has been extremely positive, with thousands of downloads of the platform, a beta release, a release candidate, and tons of feedback. Today we released Snort 2.9.7.0 with built in OpenAppId technology, and it is now available for download […]
Even in the world of cybercrime, when a top “vendor” drops out of the market, competitors will scurry to fill the void with their own products. As reported in the Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report, when Paunch—the alleged creator and distributor of the Blackhole exploit kit—was arrested in Russia in late 2013, other malware creators […]
Our Cisco colleague Anthony Grieco wrote a quick blog post over on the Cisco Security blog announcing that Cisco is a proud supporter and founder of the Linux Foundation initiative announced on April 24th. We are pleased to help form a critical mass of governance, funding, and focus that will support the output of open […]
First off, we’d like to thank everyone for their continued use of our projects and products here at Sourcefire, now a part of Cisco. We love making great software, and we love for you to use it and contribute back. It’s been a great transition so far into the Cisco community, and recently, we held […]
After a lot of hard work by our teams, and with RSA just a few days away, we are proud to announce that along with Cisco and Sourcefire’s corporate teams being present at RSA, and for the first time at RSA we will also be holding an Open Source Community Meeting for Sourcefire’s Open Source […]
Yesterday, the Snort team here at Sourcefire conducted its first major release of Snort now that we are part of the Cisco family, Snort 2.9.6.0. You can read more about this release over on the Snort.org Blog. In this version we released a lot of new features. Features that have been requested by our community, and […]
