Kaspersky Lab has added generic protection for an attack form they say is on the rise: brute force RDP attacks. RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol and is the protocol for Windows Remote Desktop ...
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 ...
Critical infrastructure operators are navigating a fundamentally changed threat landscape in 2026. Nation-state actors are ...
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 ...
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) ...
Microsoft apparently has no plans to fix a security flaw that leaves machines vulnerable using Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). In a recent report submitted to the Microsoft Security Response ...
From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol in Windows that allows people to log in to machines using ...
If the client computer keeps disconnecting when connected to a remote desktop PC, especially via the VPN, this post will help you resolve the issue. If your client ...
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 ...
Security researchers say they've spotted a new version of the Sarwent malware that opens RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) ports on infected computers so hackers could gain hands-on access to infected ...