1998 CERT Incident Notes
• SEI Report
Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
Topic or Tag
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/