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In a previous post, I wrote about attackers using default passwords in FTP and Telnet to compromise devices (especially IoT ones such as cameras). The compromised devices were then used to attack other devices on the Internet. I suggested users change passwords on the devices where possible but acknowledged that some were not changeable. I […]

In the previous blog on SQL Server’s OPENROWSET function we observed that while OPENROWSET is most often encountered in relation to linked servers, it is also valuable for directly reading flat files. It’s worth taking a moment to mention another less common application of OPENROWSET ( ). If you wanted to write code that returned […]