Matt Dunn, associate managing director in Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, discusses options for securing RDP, which differ significantly in terms of effectiveness. Kroll’s Paul Drapeau, Jeff Macko and ...

RustDesk offers the best of both worlds. This open-source, self-hostable remote access tool is similar to TeamViewer, but ...

An Internet-wide scan carried out by security researchers from Rapid7 has discovered over 11 million devices with 3389/TCP ports left open online, of which over 4.1 million are specifically speaking ...

UPDATE (June 29th, 2020): My colleague Ondrej Kubovič has written an update on RDP attacks identified through ESET's telemetry through the past half-year, as well as providing additional guidance on ...

Security researcher Daniel Wade discovers worrying Microsoft RDP feature This allows old credentials to be used when logging in Microsoft has confirmed it has no plans to change this Security ...

Cybercrime gangs are abusing Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) systems to bounce and amplify junk traffic as part of DDoS attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on Tuesday. Not all RDP ...

Even after years of reminders to use stronger passwords, organizations are still using weak passwords, such as variations of "password" and "123456," to secure their remote desktop protocol (RDP) ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe, many of us, myself included, turned to working full-time from home. Many of ESET’s employees were already accustomed to working remotely part of the ...

If you’ve read this far, I hope it’s clear by now that the easiest way to get your systems hacked using RDP is to pick crappy credentials. Unfortunately, far too many organizations that end up for ...