Symantec issued an alert that it had detected unusual amounts of scanning of a port normally associated with Microsoft SQL Server, a possible precursor to an attack.

I've been unable to connect to the SQL Server at my web host recently (started about a week ago), and I am beginning to suspect that Comcast is blocking traffic on some ports. I am using MS SQL ...

TCP/IP Port Numbers Dec 1, 2007 12:00 AM In TCP/IP and UDP networks, a port is an endpoint to a logical connection and the way a client program specifies a specific server program on a computer in a ...