Remote Desktop has been the Go To remote administration tool for many IT professionals and sadly many even expose it to the internet leading to brutefoce attacks and Man in the Middle attacks. I still remember the fist time I saw how easy it is from Irongeek examples using Cain & Able http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/cain-rdp-terminal-server-mitm-sniff and http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/cain-rdp-mitm-parser I have taken great care to make sure RDP connections in my network and customer networks are as secure as possible. Here is an example on how to deploy TLS certificates for use of RDP via GPO and how to configure some none Microsoft systems.