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Syspeace stops due to license server inaccessable on Windows Server 2003

July 18, 2014

Syspeace service stops due to license server not reachable / inaccessibility on Windows Server 2003 We’ll actually update the troubleshooting section with info for Windows 2003 Servers but here’s why this can occur. Apparently root certificates are not automatically updated on Windows Server 2003: The automatic root update mechanism is enabled on Windows Server 2008 and later […]

#infosec VPS and #Cloud servers used for brute force attacks and #botnets against #WinServ and #MSExchange

February 20, 2014

Is your VPS used for brute force attacks? or I could also have called this post “Do you know whom your VPS is hacking today?” A trend that has surfaced over the years is to simply hire computer power into the Cloud in various forms and shapes. The basic idea is to get rid of […]

#infosec Securing your #WinServ and #MSExchange with an acceptable baseline security

February 16, 2014

Securing your Windows Server with a baseline security In short, to have an acceptable baseline security for any Windows server you need to think all of the things below in this list. Sadly enough, even if you follow all of these steps, you’re still not secured forever and ever. There’s no such thing as absolute […]

A walkthrough of getting #Syspeace licenses and how it works

November 27, 2013

Getting #Syspeace licenses and how it works. From time to time we get an email from customers that have bought their Syspeace licenses and they ask for the license key that they expect to get in an email. Here’s a walkthrough of how #Syspeace licensing actually works. First you install a #Syspeace trial, register a […]

Using Syspeace for a targeted bruteforce attack against a specific username

May 2, 2013

Today we had an interesting support question actually. Someone is trying to bruteforce a customer using the same account name but from a lot of different IP addresses and they only try once or twice from each IP address thus not triggering Syspeace to block the IP address based on the default rule. The suggestion […]

Closing in on 1 Million blocked brute force and dictionary attacks on Windows Servers world wide

April 4, 2013

Just a quick post about the numbers so far really. Last night , Syspeace had blocked 962 553 brute force and dictionary attacks on Windows 2003 / 2008 / SBS server / RDS servers / Citrix WorldWide. As a prediction , we will reach over 1 Million later on this week or early next week. […]

Syspeace license password reset

February 28, 2013

Hi, all. As all of you know, we put a lot of effort and work into getting various features and improvements in place to help you protect your Windows 2003/2008/2008R2 and the Windows Server 2012 support coming up , Terminal Servers, Sharepoint Servers, Citrix Servers, Exchange Servers and so on. We’re just so into making […]

Syspeace now also for Windows 2003 Server

February 4, 2013

We’re happy to annonuce that the 2.0 version of Syspeace now also supports Windows 2003. A few other changes in there are that the engine is rewritten to be even faster, the GUI has been simplified and we’ve done a few other changes “under the hood” to make it more modular for future development for […]

Am I under attack for a brute force or dictionary attack on my Windows server?

January 3, 2013

Brute force attack or dictionary attack on Windows servers Dictionary attack and Brute force attack are fairly easy to find out if your Windows servers are being hit with some sort of an attack. Simply enable auditing of Logon Events in your Security Policy and look at the eventviewer and see what pops up. You […]

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