Breaking into RDP
Microsoft's RDP provides a GUI for the user to establish a connection to a Windows-based system over the network. Quite often, system administrators enable the RDP service on their client and server machines in an organization for easy access. With RDP enabled on a device, a system administrator does not need to physically go to the geographic location of a system to check its configurations or make adjustments to the operating system. All they have to do is simply log on using RDP. This protocol makes the job of IT professionals a bit easier and more efficient.
The protocol was designed for remote access. However, as a penetration tester, we can take advantage of systems that have RDP enabled by attempting to discover valid ...
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