However, being the inquisitive person that I am, I dug a little deeper. "At this point, I figured this was most likely due to me not changing my leaked password on TeamViewer. Then I remembered that I recently changed a few passwords in response to the LinkedIn compromise," wrote Nick Bradley (Opens in a new window), a practice leader at IBM's Threat Research Group. I hadn't really used TeamViewer in a long time and had actually forgotten that it was installed on multiple systems. "At first, I thought this might have just been an isolated incident of my password being hacked. What's happening, suspected one IBM security researcher who was almost hacked himself, is that the attackers are logging into users' computers via TeamViewer, figuring out what time zone said computers are located in, and then leavingpresumably to come back later during the off-hours, log in to these computers again, and start to do all sorts of more unpleasant things on users' systems when they aren't lookingTeamViewer. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authenticationįollowing recent reports that a number of users of the TeamViewer application have had their computers hacked, TeamViewer is officially bolstering the security of its apps to prevent more of these attackshopefully.Īs Ars Technica (Opens in a new window) reported yesterday, there have been a higher-than-usual number of complaints about TeamViewer across various social media sites over the past few days.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.
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