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How to battle slowgrind bruteforce attacks against Windows servers

August 11, 2014

The default rule of Syspeace is that if an intruder fails to login more than 5 times within 30 minutes, the intruders IP address is blocked, tracked and reported for 2 hours and simply is denied any access to the server. A new trend though has emerged and that is for bruteforce attackers to “slowgrind” through […]

Syspeace for internal brute force protection on Windows Servers

September 25, 2013

After installing Syspeace , the tech guys started getting notifications that their Exchange Server was trying to login to another server and it was rejected. There was no reason for this server to do so whatsoever and it had not been noticed earlier so it’s hard to say when it actually started. After disabling the […]

Using various brute force and dictionary attack prevention methods – and why they don’t work

July 11, 2013

Protection from brute force attempts on Windows servers has always been a nightmare and would continue to be so if not .. Yes, I admit, I will come up with a solution further down. Most system administrators with selfrespect start off with the best of intentions to actually keep track of brute force / dictianary […]

Using Syspeace also for internal protection and access reporting.

July 10, 2013

Using Syspeace for internal server protection Most Syspeace users have the software in place to protect them from mainly from external threats from the Internet such as hacking attempts via bruteforce attacks and dictionary attacks. Quite often, the internal netowrk ranges are excluded in the local whitelist by sysadmins , thus never blocking anything from […]

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 […]

Preview of the new Acces Reports feature in the upcoming Syspeace

February 28, 2013

This is a sneak preview of a new feature in the upcoming Syspeace to make sysadmins also be able to search, sort, create and export various reports to .CSV files on login activity on their Windows servers. There will be even more things in the reporting and sorting functionality when we release it Syspeace protects […]

Syspeace for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server

February 15, 2013

Syspeace for Windows 2003 server released As many of you already know, we’ve released version 2 that also includes Windows 2003 support and we’ve got great feedback on it. While introducing version 2, we actually also rewrote a lot of the engine code in the background to make Syspeace more modular for us to implement […]

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 […]