Strange Port hits

[Tyler Regas]

A crawler called Spida is currently cruising around. More details here:

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2866785,00.html

On Mon, 27 May 2002 17:39:07 -0400
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> 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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