
“To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could create an RDG file containing specially crafted XML content and convince an authenticated user to open the file.” With the last release being in 2014, this did not come as a surprise. In response to the security bug, Microsoft retired RDCMan.

In early 2020 however, a security bug was identified with RDCMan. It’s last update was 6 years ago in 2014 when Microsoft released version 2.7. Retirement of Remote Desktop Connection Managerĭuring the subsequent years since it’s release, RDC has received a number updates. The tool quickly gained traction with system administrators and IT professionals. After an internal tool review however, it was released to the public. The tool was originally built for internal use by the Windows Live Experience Team. RDCMan is a standalone tool that was first available in the end part of the 2000’s. Fig 1 Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 (Turns out, I think she was using it wrong. Remember my mom calling me a Dyngus… I better go look that up.

Nerd Journey # 212 - Seek and Embrace Flexibility with Leah White (1/2) Best Practices & General IT.Hi,I heard that is better aproach to configure 1 firewall as a WAN and another as a LAN(routed or transparent)I am little confused about why is necesarry a firewall for LAN isn't a router like cisco could filter using ACL or use the same firewall for WAN. Firewall for Lan network configuration? Security.
