If this is a linux server, you may be able to use Fail2Ban or similar
tools to automatically block IPs launching dictionary attacks like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban



On 09/28/2012 12:41 PM, Bruno Garcia wrote:
> This is stupid, they are never going to guess an rcon password if it's
> protected enough
> However, Valve should take care of it...Sounds like more protocol
> exploits are getting out there...
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Rafael <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     I use amxx, and i disabled rcon_password now, i hope it won't
>     cause any problems with hlstatsxce, which sends rcon commands to
>     server.
>      
>     But its annoying, i'm still seeing "bad rcon" and "no password set
>     for this server" alot, and all logged to log file (it can be big
>     with that).
>      
>     24h logging, about 14k of lines: http://puu.sh/19jLU
>
>       
>
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