1434 MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc. defile writes "Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random ... [Slashdot] Ouch, who are all these insane people running SQL databases open to the internet? [Simon Fell]

What's worse is that about a year ago, one of our DBAs went to a SQL Server training course where the instructor did a demonstration of how many SQL Servers he could log into over the internet using the sa account with no password.