Teamviewer hacked
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@coliver said in Teamviewer hacked:
@DustinB3403 said in Teamviewer hacked:
@Jason said in Teamviewer hacked:
@DustinB3403 said in Teamviewer hacked:
@Jason said in Teamviewer hacked:
Is teamviewer still owned by Microsoft?
I believe TV is privately held. I know LMI is owned by MS though.
LMI isn't owned by Microsoft. LMI does own LastPass and Xmarks now though.
You sure? I'm almost positive it is..
It's not.
Meh, might as well be with their robbery prices.
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@DustinB3403 said in Teamviewer hacked:
. I know LMI is owned by MS though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogMeIn
News to me. Looks private still. But these things are sometimes well hidden or through third parties.
[My feed was delayed, I missed the conversation after the original post.]
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Another big reddit thread on the issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4m7ay6/teamviewer_has_been_hacked_they_are_denying/ -
Dang, I like TeamViewer.
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@BRRABill said in Teamviewer hacked:
Dang, I like TeamViewer.
I have never really liked it. It was decent for a free to use product. I never liked their price, because other purchasable solutions were better.
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@JaredBusch said
I have never really liked it. It was decent for a free to use product. I never liked their price, because other purchasable solutions were better.
Yeah I should quantify that, for the free version. They were definitely pricey. (Though very willing to negotiate.)
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@BRRABill said in Teamviewer hacked:
Dang, I like TeamViewer.
Always found it so ridiculously expensive. Good product, but never cost competitive.
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@BRRABill said in Teamviewer hacked:
@JaredBusch said
I have never really liked it. It was decent for a free to use product. I never liked their price, because other purchasable solutions were better.
Yeah I should quantify that, for the free version. They were definitely pricey. (Though very willing to negotiate.)
Their competition starts much lower and is also willing to negotiate.
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I'm sure that if you press TV today, they'd negotiate pretty well
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@scottalanmiller said in Teamviewer hacked:
I'm sure that if you press TV today, they'd negotiate pretty well
They also were willing to do monthly when I looked into it. Something like $39 a month for one tech. Was very competitive at the time.
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No real updates on this. Same sorts of back and forth it looks like.
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@BRRABill said in Teamviewer hacked:
No real updates on this. Same sorts of back and forth it looks like.
Noooooooooo no no. No update. No hack. Ssshhhhh all is ok now.
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One of the things that confounds me a bit is the people who are saying they were hacked, and had "strong passwords" and 2FA on TeamViewer because they were concerned about security, yet had no login setup on their PC, and stored all their banking/eBay/payPal/Amazon info in their browser?
I'm not saying TV wasn't breached. But, it would have had to have be a breach of their entire system for 2FA to also fail, correct? I mean, this is more than stealing passwords. The whole system would have to be broken or not implemented properly.
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Also, if you read through the news reporting, the two events that happened are made to sound like the y are related.
"TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company's systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked."
But people on those reddit threads have been saying this has been happening to them for months. So, people were getting their bank accounts drained, see TeamViewer doing it, and just now it is coming out?
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@BRRABill said in Teamviewer hacked:
Also, if you read through the news reporting, the two events that happened are made to sound like the y are related.
"TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company's systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked."
But people on those reddit threads have been saying this has been happening to them for months. So, people were getting their bank accounts drained, see TeamViewer doing it, and just now it is coming out?
Most of the stories in the reddit thread are in the last 1-2 weeks from what I noticed.
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Not really much chatter this week about this.
TV is still claiming it was weak passwords and that their 2FA was in fact not compromised. For all the clamoring on reddit, no one has submitted anything to TV yet.
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GFI came up with a solution to assisting with this issue.
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@DustinB3403 said in Teamviewer hacked:
GFI came up with a solution to assisting with this issue.
So did I
http://howto-uninstall.windowsuninstaller.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Uninstall-TeamViewer-8.jpg
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@MattSpeller said in Teamviewer hacked:
@BRRABill said in Teamviewer hacked:
No real updates on this. Same sorts of back and forth it looks like.
Noooooooooo no no. No update. No hack. Ssshhhhh all is ok now.
Is Teamviewer taking a page out of Lenovo's book?
SuperPhish is found, quickly reclassify a bunch of product lines to consumer before admitting to SuperPhish. "But it was only on consumer lines of products!"
I don't see how it could make any difference, but wouldn't surprise me to find out they're trying some sort of cover up.
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@travisdh1 I don't honestly know
Companies immediately lose 100% of my trust when they handle stuff like this poorly. Teamviewer is a spectacular example.
