[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

Anyone who takes no precautions can expect to be hacked within hours.

Here is a summary of the break-in attempts on my home network since Jan 2, as blocked by the border router. Service names where known, port numbers where not known.

   4499 microsoft-ds                   2 rsh-spx
   1448 ms-sql-s                       2 radan-http
   1409 49756                          2 h323hostcall
    733 telnet                         2 cslistener
    287 8909                           2 81
    195 epmap                          2 27238
    160 ms-wbt-server                  2 21168
    144 mysql                          1 zenginkyo-2
     74 ident                          1 websm
     42 9415                           1 socks
     39 http-alt                       1 redstorm-diag
     25 netbios-ssn                    1 pcanywheredata
     21 rfb                            1 netiq
     16 radmin-port                    1 imap
     14 https                          1 iax
     11 pop3                           1 dsc
     10 ndl-aas                        1 distinct
      9 6666                           1 cisco-sccp
      5 ncube-lm                       1 cadlock2
      3 codasrv-se                     1 9944
      3 65500                          1 880
      3 5998                           1 8090
      2 ssc-agent                      1 37037

That is not counting the permitted services that were dropped by iptables rules at the server.

You namedropper