1999 CERT Incident Notes

SEI Report
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This document contains the CERT incident notes from 1999.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In 1999, CERT published eight incident notes.

  • IN-99-01: "sscan" Scanning Tool
  • IN-99-02: Happy 99 Trojan Horse
  • IN-99-03: CIH/Chernobyl Virus
  • IN-99-04: Similar Attacks Using Various RPC Services
  • IN-99-05: Systems Compromised Through a Vulnerability in am-utils
  • IN-99-06: Distributed Network Sniffer IN-99-07: Distributed Denial of Service Tools
  • IN-99-08: Attacks against IIS web servers involving MDAC

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 (1999, December 31). 1999 CERT Incident Notes. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1999-cert-incident-notes/.

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Software Engineering Institute. "1999 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, December 31, 1999. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1999-cert-incident-notes/.

Software Engineering Institute, "1999 CERT Incident Notes," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, 31-Dec-1999 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1999-cert-incident-notes/. [Accessed: 17-Sep-2026].

Software Engineering Institute. "1999 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 31 Dec. 1999. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1999-cert-incident-notes/. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

Software Engineering Institute. 1999 CERT Incident Notes. Software Engineering Institute. 1999. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/1999-cert-incident-notes/