2000 CERT Incident Notes

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This document contains ten CERT incident notes from the year 2000.
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Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

In 2000, CERT published ten incident notes:

  • IN-2000-01:Windows Based DDOS Agents
  • IN-2000-02: Exploitation of Unprotected Windows Networking Shares
  • IN-2000-03: 911 Worm
  • IN-2000-04: Denial of Service Attacks using Nameservers
  • IN-2000-05: "mstream" Distributed Denial of Service Tool
  • IN-2000-06: Exploitation of "Scriptlet.Typelib" ActiveX Control
  • IN-2000-07: Exploitation of Hidden File Extensions
  • IN-2000-08: Chat Clients and Network Security
  • IN-2000-09: Systems Compromised Through a Vulnerability in the IRIX telnet daemon
  • IN-2000-10: Widespread Exploitation of rpc.statd and wu-ftpd Vulnerabilities

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.