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Welcome to the CERT^® Coordination Center

What's New (updated February 28, 2000)

IN-2000-01: Windows Based DDOS Agents

CA-2000-02 Malicious HTML Tags Embedded in Client Web Requests

CA-2000-01 Denial-of-Service Developments

CA-99-17 Denial-of-Service Tools

CERT/CC Current Activity (updated February 22, 2000)

Current Activity topics include

Compromises via BIND vulnerability [ Updated: 22 February 2000 ]

Packet Flooding Denial of Service Attacks [ Updated: 22 February 2000 ]

Scans and Probes [ Reviewed: 22 February 2000 ]

The CERT/CC Current Activity page is a summary of the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents and vulnerabilities currently being reported to the CERT/CC.

Our PGP Key Has Changed

On October 4, 1999, the PGP key for the CERT/CC was replaced with a new PGP key. For information about using PGP to communicate with us, please see our page about sending sensitive information.

WARNING! There is a forged CERT PGP key. Be sure to validate keys.

What We Do

At the CERT Coordination Center, we study Internet security vulnerabilities, provide incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publish a variety of security alerts, research security and survivability in wide-area-networked computing, and develop information to help you improve security at your site.

Here are links to some of our most popular documents:

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We're looking for a few good people to work in Internet security. Please see our Employment Opportunities.

The CERT Coordination Center is part of the Networked Systems Survivability Program in the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University.

Last updated February 28, 2000

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