Bro Monthly #5
Welcome to the 5th Bro Monthly newsletter. This month we cover the following topics:
- Bro Meet-ups: our category for Bro related gatherings and groups,
- Bro Commits: Bro v2.4 is here,
- Bro in the wild,
- Bro internal.
Bro Meet-ups
BroCon’15 Agenda online
Still not registered for BroCon’15?
Please have a look on our updated agenda.
We are happy to announce that the inventor of Bro, Vern Paxson will give a keynote speech.
The deadline to submit your presentation is coming very soon,May 29th. We already have some exciting topics but there is for sure room for more. Send us your Bro story.
Bro Commits: Bro v2.4 is here
We are happy to announce the beta of Bro v2.4 is available for download! Here is a brief summary of new features and improvements:
- Support for external plugins to extend core functionality.
- Announcing the release of Broker: Bro’s new communication library.
- Major improvements to BroControl’s reliability and error handling.
- New analyzers: including SSH, DTLS, RDP, and MySQL.
- File analysis supports reassembly of files not transferred/seen sequentially.
- And, BroCut was rewritten in C to improve its speed.
Binary packages are also available.
See NEWS for preliminary release notes and CHANGES for the exhaustive commit list.
Feedback is encouraged and should be sent to the Bro mailing list. As previously stated, we do not recommend using a beta release for production use.
Bro in the wild
Free Bro Crash course @BsidesChicago with @CriticalStack CEO Liam Randall ( @Hectaman ). Sign up today: http://t.co/VXi86D2GZx
— Liam Randall (@Hectaman) May 13, 2015
How to Write an Analyzer for @Bro_IDS https://t.co/em1saDytOx
— Jon Schipp (@JonSchipp) May 11, 2015
Fox-IT – Quantum Insert detection for Bro-IDS https://t.co/9h6P9e7taK
http://t.co/CDQvgLJKMO #CyberDefense #cybersecurity #infosec
— Ian (@Secnewsbytes) May 5, 2015
another week, another @Bro_IDS script package— if you're not monitoring for Tor and want to start, take a look: http://t.co/YFM7m7UgQH
— Josh Liburdi (@jshlbrd) May 4, 2015
cute weekend hack: loading @Bro_IDS logs dynamically as @osquery tables https://t.co/qspuUmb05d pic.twitter.com/jznnXGj21E
— Jen Andre (@fun_cuddles) April 27, 2015
looking for MS15-034 and run @Bro_IDS? we're sharing a script we use to find it: https://t.co/00ukIJqKpN cc @CrowdStrike
— Josh Liburdi (@jshlbrd) April 20, 2015
And so it begins…
A PE analyzer in @Bro_IDS
https://t.co/1kr1S8vV2E
— Anthony (@anthonykasza) April 20, 2015
thanks to @sroberts, I wrote a blog post about my favorite hunting tool (shocker, it's @Bro_IDS): http://t.co/I5T9c45LNR
— Josh Liburdi (@jshlbrd) April 14, 2015
Video of @OpenNSM lastnight is up! @JustinAzoff on Graphing @Bro_IDS Metrics, BHR, and Ninfo
Great integration tools https://t.co/mkgvCiqQxM
— OpenNSM (@OpenNSM) April 14, 2015
New Nettitude blog: Network Security Monitoring With Bro IDS, TCPDump And MongoDB: http://t.co/poe094l1oP #Infosec
— Nettitude Group (@Nettitude_com) April 1, 2015
Bro Internal
Saying goodbye to Bro's Jon Siwek, thanks for all your awesome work pic.twitter.com/ov58j37zJI
— The Bro Platform (@Bro_IDS) April 30, 2015
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