CERT Coordination Center 1994 Annual Report
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Software Engineering Institute
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Abstract
From January through December 1994, the CERT Coordination Center received 29,580 e-mail messages and 3,664 hotline calls reporting computer security incidents or requesting information.
The CERT staff handled 2,241 computer security incidents during this period. The following chart provides a by-month break-out of this activity. There have been over 40,241 sites affected by these incidents. (22,650 of these sites were involved in a failed sendmail attack, where all computers within a specified IP address range were probed to exploit an old sendmail vulnerability.) Based on current computer security incident data, the following are the top four techniques for exploiting Internet hosts:
- Sniffer attacks: reusable passwords, Trojan utilities
- Email related: 3 different sendmail attacks
- Network File System (NFS) attacks
- Network Information Services (NIS) attacks
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CERT Annual Reports 1994-2010
Cite This Annual Report
@techreport{Citekey_1995,
author={Software Engineering Institute},
title={CERT Coordination Center 1994 Annual Report},
month={Jan},
year={1995},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
url={https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/cert-coordination-center-1994-annual-report-summary/},
note={Accessed: 2026-Jul-12}
}
Software Engineering Institute. "CERT Coordination Center 1994 Annual Report." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute, January 1, 1995. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/cert-coordination-center-1994-annual-report-summary/.