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

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused problems with Remote Desktop and RDS connections after installing Windows updates released since January 2025. Microsoft says that some customers might ...

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 ...

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, have issued a security alert regarding attacks being conducted through the Windows ...

While similar in scope and use cases, the collaboration features, pricing, and supported operating systems set these two remote desktop options apart. The ability to access a remote machine is often ...

Several flaws in both open-source RDP clients and in Microsoft’s own proprietary client make it possible for a malicious RDP server to infect a client computer – which could then allow for an ...

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) became a hot target for cybercrime as businesses shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A year later, the trend shows no sign of slowing. RDP, Microsoft's ...

Remote access tools are typically built around a primary protocol. For instance, Microsoft Remote Desktop is a pure RDP ...

In the past year, cybercriminals behind two of the biggest ransomware attacks have abandoned other techniques in favor of exploiting remote desktop protocol. Matt Boddy of Sophos explains why RDP ...

Remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks increase by 768% between Q1 and Q4 last year, fuelled by the shift to remote working, according to ESET’s Q4 2020 Threat Report. However, a slower rate of growth ...

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is an incredibly useful feature used by likely millions of people every day. Considering it is free and preinstalled from Microsoft, it beats out most other ...

My WinXP production workstation accesses production-domain restricted-access share drives where developer packages are stored. The various win2003 servers in Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 are all in ...