Security Incidents: Re: Strange scan on 1433

[dr john halewood <john () frumious unidec co uk>]

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 2:38 pm, Pavel Lozhkin wrote:
> I got a lot of scans today on port 1433 from numerous nets (part of them
> are .jp and .kr, but not all)
> Does anyone know what they're looking for on the port ?
> I've never been scanned on the port before.
 I'm getting a lot of these as well. 1433 is the Microsoft SQL server port. 
There's a number of tools doing the rounds at the moment looking for the all 
too common ms-sql servers with blank sa (database admin) passwords, as well 
as a few that exploit vulnerabilities in unpatched servers.

cheers
john


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