Re: Please Help: Someone is hacking my server!

From: Beige Bond (BeigeBond_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/02/05 

Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:25 -0400

Blocking the attacking IP probably won't help -- it's probably a dynamic IP.

This might be painful, but...create a new admin. login with a hard-to-guess
name, use a strong password, and DELETE sa.

-- Jeff

"A.M" <Hate-Spam@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:e%235pS4YTFHA.612@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
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> My SQL server is has a public IP address admins and developers can access
> and manage remotely (this is the requirement)
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> When I monitor the SQL server port I can see some one is brutally trying
> to hack my server. There are almost 70 connections from IP address
> 66.15.173.105 that try to connect to my server.
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> My guess is he is trying to use brute force technique to find the sa
> password.
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> What is the best way to prevent that? Can I adjust some settings, to have
> failed logins wait for 10 seconds?
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> Any help would be appreciated,
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> Alan
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