Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers

    Date: 11/14/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, database, sql, security, microsoft

    A survey by renowned database hacker David Litchfield has found a whopping 492,000 Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers directly accessible to the Internet without firewall protection. Litchfield (right), co-founder of Next Generation Security Software, ran port scans against 1,160,000 random IP addresses -- TCP port 1433...

    Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=663

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