The CERT® Program is part of the Software Engineering Institute SEI, a federally funded research and development center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Following the Morris worm incident, which brought 10 percent of internet systems to a halt in November 1988, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA charged the SEI with setting up a center to coordinate communication among experts during security emergencies and to help prevent future incidents. This center was named the CERT Coordination Center CERTCC.

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Website: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-29.html