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A denial of service exploit for OpenSSL was announced recently. We verified that the vulnerability does propagate into Bro and has the same affect in Bro as in other software that uses OpenSSL. If a Bro process…
read more about OpenSSL Denial of Service Impacting Bro – CVE-2015-1788I’m happy to announce the Bro Exchange for 2013 is a go! Our Bro Exchanges aim to get a large number Bro users together into the same room to share experiences and talk about how everyone…
read more about Announcing Bro Exchange 2013 and Requesting TalksEarlier this week, Mandiant released their APT1 report which I’m not going to bother providing any analysis or commentary on, there has been plenty of that this week. As a developer on a network analysis tool…
read more about Watching for the APT1 IntelligenceThe Bro Exchange 2012 registration form has just been activated. This event is being organized rather quickly at this point, so please everyone register quickly and send in your presentation proposals to us at info@bro-ids.org. Bro…
read more about Bro Exchange 2012 Registration Form PostedUPDATE: We have finalized the dates: August 7-8, 2012. See the new Exchange 2012 web page for more information. Due to overwhelming demand for a user meeting instead of a workshop this year I’m pleased to…
read more about Announcing Bro Exchange 2012One of the best new features of Bro 2.0 is the logging framework. It gives you structured logs which are easily parsed for simplified log analysis. It also provides a nice abstraction between writing something to…
read more about Filtering Logs with BroThis is a guest blog post from Martin Holste. He’s been a great participant in our community and lead developer of the log search utility; ELSA. We asked him to do a guest blog post because…
read more about Monster LogsLast week we held our first workshop since the full team came together for the NSF grant and I felt like the workshop went very well. It was by far the largest workshop in terms of…
read more about Bro Workshop 2011 is Sadly OverWe are happy to announce that we have just opened registration for the 2011 Bro Workshop. It’s going to be held at NCSA in Urbana, IL from November 8th to November 10th. This workshop should be…
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