Security Issues
The RDP protocol in its default configuration is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. Administrators can enable transport layer encryption to mitigate this risk.
RDP sessions are also susceptible to in-memory credential harvesting, which can be used to launch pass the hash attacks.
In March 2012, Microsoft released an update for a critical security vulnerability in the RDP protocol that allowed a Windows computer to be compromised by unauthenticated clients and computer worms.
Read more about this topic: Remote Desktop Protocol
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