Hackers are Using Bots to Break Into Your Windows Servers Servolutions has released BotFence v. 2.1, an application that protects a Windows server from hackers and bots. Every month, we learn that hackers have broken into high-visibility computers such as the Pentagon’s servers, NASA’s servers, and the White House servers. Truth is, hackers are getting into small companies’ servers every day and stealing financial information, credit card data, and other sensitive info. BotFence is a powerhouse application that can keep Windows servers safe. The software runs as a Windows background service and monitors a server’s FTP (including FileZilla-FTP), remote desktop (RDP), SMTP (email), WordPress sites, and SQL Server events for failed logins. Using advanced heuristics, BotFence detects individual hack attempts as well as advanced botnets attacking from many servers at once, and dynamically lists attacking IP addresses in the Windows firewall block list. Servolutions offers a free utility called AttackTracer – http://www.servolutions.com/AttackTracer.htm – that scans Windows Server logs and determines if there have been hacking attempts against that server. Most businesses need their servers to be accessible from the Internet for incoming emails, FTP file transfers, remote desktop sessions, SQL Server connections, and a range of other services. Hackers know that these published services are not protected by the Windows firewall, and they use bots running brute-force hacking attempts to pound on them. It’s not unusual for a company’s server to receive thousands of hacking attempts each day from networks of computers on a wide range of IP addresses and mostly from other countries. Each of the hacker bots tries to get into your server by using the most common user names and passwords. “"Administrator’ is the most popular remote desktop user name, and "sa’ is the most common SQL Server superuser account name.", says Claus Christensen of Servolutions. In addition to keeping server information safe, BotFence makes servers run faster by blocking thousands of server login attempts each day. BotFence notifies network administrators by email about newly blocked hacking attempts. In addition, the software creates daily or weekly detail and summary reports. BotFence and AttackTracer run under Microsoft Server and SBS Server 2008 through 2012, as well as Windows 7, 8, and 10. A single-server license of BotFence costs $199(US) and comes with a 1-year money-back guarantee. For more information, to download the 30-day trial version, or to view BotFence live on the servolutions.com webserver, visit http://www.servolutions.com/BotFence.htm. # # #
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