Re: Strange scan on 1433

From: dr john halewood (johnat_private)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 08:30:01 PDT

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    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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