My boss just had me spin up a new server instance for a dev system. This machine has MS SQL on it and he wants me to open port 1433 to the Internet. I don't think it is a good idea to have sql ports ...
we have a couple of SQL Servers (2000 and 2005) which have the SQL ports open to the Internet for our customers' convenience. This results in thousands of "login failed for sa" in the event viewers, ...