2000 CERT Incident Notes

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This document contains ten CERT incident notes from the year 2000.
Publisher

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.

Part of a Collection

CERT Annual Reports 1994-2010

Cite This SEI Report

Software Engineering Institute (2000, December 31). 2000 CERT Incident Notes. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2000-cert-incident-notes/.

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Software Engineering Institute. "2000 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, December 31, 2000. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2000-cert-incident-notes/.

Software Engineering Institute, "2000 CERT Incident Notes," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, 31-Dec-2000 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2000-cert-incident-notes/. [Accessed: 17-Sep-2026].

Software Engineering Institute. "2000 CERT Incident Notes." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 31 Dec. 2000. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2000-cert-incident-notes/. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

Software Engineering Institute. 2000 CERT Incident Notes. Software Engineering Institute. 2000. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2000-cert-incident-notes/