1998 CERT Incident Notes

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This document details seven CERT incident notes from 1998.
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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.