‚Snort‘ needs to have an updated set of rulesets in order to be able to detect and respond to emerging threats as effectively as possible ‚Pulledpork‘ is a Perl script that is able to keep your Snort rulesets updated at all times with a minimal amount of effort
# cd /usr/local/src/snort
# wget https://pulledpork.googlecode.com/files/pulledpork-0.7.0.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf /usr/local/src/snort/pulledpork-0.7.0.tar.gz
Subscription rules are served from this URL https://www.snort.org/rules/<file_name>?oinkcode=<oinkcode> if your subscription is active you will receive the latest rules