Waking up at 2AM after falling asleep at work on a Friday evening, to be greeted by a wall full of router racks lit up like a wall-shaped christmas tree is a sobering experience indeed. Needless to say I've been working since then to apply appropriate firewall rules accross our network to block port 1434. Once this blows over, it's time to start some real PostgreSQL advocacy..
Having used Orcle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, I'm wondering... why use anything other than PostgreSQL? This attack just further reinforces my belief that 95% of folks using Oracle and SQL Server should switch.
Postgresql and oracle are like screw drivers. Do you use one screw driver for all tasks? No. There are some things that oracle really kicks ass at that postgres really plain sucks at. Vice versa as well.
Oh please. I'm not a fan of MS either, but SQL Server is actually quite good (aside from the security hole of course.) Performance and feature wise it is a top notch product.
We are seeing this problem due to lazy network / sysadmins. This problem has had a fix for over six months already, and there is no reason network admins leave the front door wide fucking open.
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We are seeing this problem due to lazy network / sysadmins. This problem has had a fix for over six months already, and there is no reason network admins leave the front door wide fucking open.
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I like the duck...