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Bro has seen exponential growth over the past five years since the release of version 2.0. This is seen in the growth of attendees and organizations at BroCon, Twitter followers, IRC channel usage, downloads, and more.…
read more about Announcing the Bro Future FundThe Bro Development Team is announcing the release of Packet Bricks. Packet Bricks is a Linux/FreeBSD daemon that is capable of receiving and distributing ingress traffic to userland applications. It uses netmap’s I/O module to capture…
read more about Announcing Bro’s Packet BricksBro News #6 Welcome to the 6th Bro not-monthly newsletter. We renamed Bro Monthly to Bro News. Instead of forcing a monthly newsletter we give you updates when there is really something to say. This time…
read more about Bro News #6The Bro Project is excited to announce it has joined Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). SFC is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. You are…
read more about Bro & Software Freedom ConservancyOverview Applying log analysis tools to Bro logs can improve event correlation and expedite the use of pattern based signatures for quick detection. Sagan, a multithreaded log analysis engine written by Champ Clark “Da Beave” is…
read more about Analyzing Bro Logs with SaganBro 2.4.1 has been released. This release addresses a few potential DOS vectors using specially crafted connections. The release also contains minor updates to analyzers to reduce the number of messages in reporter.log. The source distribution…
read more about Bro 2.4.1 ReleaseA 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-2015-1788We are happy to announce that Bro 2.4 has been released and is available for download. For a brief overview of the new features, please look at our blog post of the 2.4 beta. Since the…
read more about Bro 2.4 releasedBro 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…
read more about Bro Monthly #5We 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:…
read more about Bro 2.4 Beta