Someones's trying to Hack into my Router

[Toyboy]

Checked my Netgear WG834T Router and someone's been trying to connect in to DOS ports, which are all closed inbound. Can they do any damage ?

Log example >

Wed, 2006-03-22 03:26:33 - UDP Packet - Source:7.12.12.16,13364
Destination:84.161.175.43,1033 - [DOS]

[sdkfz]

You are going to find attacks happening all the time. Make sure your router's password is changed to something cryptic and secure. Something which is not a word and has upper/lower case, symbols and numbers, the longer the better. This will slow them down in their attempts to gt control of the router - and unless you are some one important (like IBM or Bank of America) you are not worth it to spend any time trying to get into, but zombi computers are trying IP address at random looking for access. There are literally thousands of these already hacked machines doing this. Don't sweat it.

[skedaddle]

I've got a <a href="http://www.pddoc.com/farnham/?p=168">thread</a> related to this attack on my <a href="http://www.pddoc.com/farnham">North Farnham Freeholder</a> blog. From information that others have been able to glean, it "looks" like a Department of Defense hack, but I doubt the accuracy of any of the info. The attack appears to have first popped up on the 18th, then I didn't see it for a while. I went back and looked at the worm detection activity, and it turns out it had popped up once on the 19th and again 1 time on the 20th. Then nothing until today at 3:40 am central time USA and then again 6 hours and 2 minutes later. Then 6 hours and 2 minutes later, it popped up again. It's not getting in — just keeps trying.