On 2012-01-10 joseph (at) itsec-asia (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
> 3389 is a RDP, if attacker find open port on 3389 they can guessing is
> a RDP running on the host (server).
>
> Actually Win Server 2008 (equivalent) has a RDP with good encryption.
>
> But,
>
> This is not enough to securing your RDP Connections. My very best
> practice are just changing your RDP Port number ..

Obscurity is never even a good, much less a best security practice. If a
service is vulnerable, it's vulnerable on any port you make it listen
on.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches
becoming available."
--Jason Coombs on Bugtraq

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