Strange Port hits

[Bruce Marshall]

I've been getting a lot of hits on port 1433 lately.   This is something new 
in the last week or so.  Anyone know of anything going on in the dark world 
of hackers that makes port 1433 a good target?

The ports list shows that port is for Microsoft-SQL-server....

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         05/27/02 17:35  +
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