Re: Is Remote Desktop vulnerable to brute force attacks?

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Your normal account security settings for the domain should handle
this. Configure the maximum number of failed logon attempts before an
account is locked, as well as the duration of the lockout and whether
it needs to be unlocked manually by an Administrator or not.

I believe that there is a specific security event which in it's
description has a warning that your TS might be under attack, but the
only reports I have seen about this event is that it is mainly
triggered by some general network problems, and thus is a false
alarm.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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PSiegmann@xxxxxxx wrote on 04 jan 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

Something I thought about some time now: Is RDP completely
secure against brute force attacks?

I mean, does it stops someone, who throws 10000 password
combinations per minute? Can it sense such attacks?
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