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Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures
From: Michael Stone <mstone+snort () mathom us>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:30:35 -0500
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 02:01:05PM -0500, Matthew Jonkman wrote:
I agree on the difference between just logging hits and having true FP and TP ratings. But even a false positive can be different on the same packet in different organizations. Many folks mark a hit a false positive because it's just not of interest, vs nt hitting on what it's supposed to be looking for.
Well, even that distincion isn't so clear. Does "what it's supposed to be looking for" mean "the string the signature was written against" or "the malware the signature was written against"? Mike Stone ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Re: Reliability of signatures, (continued)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Martin Holste (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Nigel Houghton (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Joel Esler (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Martin Holste (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures beenph (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Martin Holste (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Matthew Jonkman (Feb 04)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Jim Hranicky (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures Martin Holste (Feb 04)
- Re: Reliability of signatures waldo kitty (Feb 04)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Michael Stone (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Michael Scheidell (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Matt Olney (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Michael Scheidell (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Matt Olney (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Michael Scheidell (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Matthew Jonkman (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Jacob Kitchel (Feb 11)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Michael Scheidell (Feb 10)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Jacob Kitchel (Feb 11)
- Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures Martin Roesch (Feb 11)