newsfilter
← Latest News
Business Wire·

Sourcefire Protects Customers Against “Apache Killer” Exploit

COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced that its Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) protects customers against the recently released “Apache Killer” tool, as well as attacks against the underlying vulnerability that enables it. Functionality to detect the bug has existed for several years in both the Sourcefire IPS and open source Snort; in addition, the VRT™ also supplemented this protection today with a new rule that specifically detects this new exploit and helps administrators identify the specific tool being used to attack them.