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I'm going to be out of the country for a while with my underpowered laptop, so, I wanted to get remote desktop working (windows 7). I know I can forward ports and have it working, but what I'm wondering is:
Any suggestions are welcome. |
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You can turn off the computer the command line way - with shutdown.exe, or hitting Ctrl+Alt+End, then using the shutdown option there. turning it back on will require something like wake on lan and waiting for the system to boot up RDP is fairly secure - 128-bit RC4 encryption by default, so there's less chance of someone listening in. On the other hand, to reduce the risk of brute force attacks you should probably use a strong password and a limited user account if possible. Also remember that Administrator is in the remote access group by default. You want to remove it from this group using local policy editor, otherwise its username/password is another brute force attack target and you want to reduce the target surface area as much as possible. As for 'will i be hacked' - it depends on the hacker. For most part tho, RDP is reasonably safe, but that would depend on what vulnerabilities are out there. |
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Wanted to add this is a comment, but have no privileges to do so... here it is: You will run in trouble if your external IP address is assigned via DHCP. If it is static - fine, but how you would know if the external IP changes. I am not entirely sure how secure the authentication process is (not a Windows guy, not using RDP). For example: imagine you are in a hotel and use their unsecured Wi-Fi. I would test it first - try Cain&Abel and see if you can catch your login credentials. Cheers |
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