Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition

Preface

CERT was formed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in November 1988 in response to the Morris worm incident, which brought 10 percent of Internet systems to a halt in November 1988. CERT is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

The initial focus of CERT was incident response and analysis. Incidents include successful attacks such as compromises and denials of service, as well as attack attempts, probes, and scans. Since 1988, CERT has received more than 22,665 hotline calls reporting computer security incidents or requesting information and has handled more than 319,992 computer ...