1998 CERT Incident Notes

SEI Report
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This document details seven CERT incident notes from 1998.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In 1998, CERT published seven incident notes.

  • IN-98.01: Scans to Port 1/tcpmux and unpassworded SGI accounts
  • IN-98.02: New Tools Used For Widespread Scans
  • IN-98.03: Password Cracking Activity
  • IN-98.04: Advanced Scanning
  • IN-98-05: Probes with Spoofed IP Addresses
  • IN-98-06: Automated Scanning and Exploitation
  • IN-98-07: Windows NT "Remote Explorer" Virus

CERT incident notes are now a core component of US-CERT's Technical Cyber Security Alerts and Current Activity. We provide these incident notes, published by year, for historical purposes.

Part of a Collection

CERT Annual Reports 1994-2010

Cite This SEI Report

Software Engineering Institute (1998, December 31). 1998 CERT Incident Notes. Retrieved August 19, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1998-cert-incident-notes/.

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Software Engineering Institute. "1998 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, December 31, 1998. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1998-cert-incident-notes/.

Software Engineering Institute, "1998 CERT Incident Notes," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, 31-Dec-1998 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1998-cert-incident-notes/. [Accessed: 19-Aug-2026].

Software Engineering Institute. "1998 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 31 Dec. 1998. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1998-cert-incident-notes/. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

Software Engineering Institute. 1998 CERT Incident Notes. Software Engineering Institute. 1998. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1998-cert-incident-notes/