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Buried lede imo: TeamViewer having similar issues. Lots of folks claiming it's breached, TV denying it. A lot of potential mischief there, if breached. https

Buried lede imo: TeamViewer having similar issues. Lots of folks claiming it's breached, TV denying it. A lot of potential mischief there, if breached. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4m7ay6/teamviewer_has_been_hacked_they_are_denying/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4m7ay6/teamview...

jasonellis 10y ago
I have found no indication that my TeamViewer computers were hacked, but after reading this for a few days I finally disabled TV on them last night and I'm looking for other solutions. After using TeamViewer for over 5 years, I started getting a handful of invites on the service from random names about a month ago (I had never gotten a single invite prior). That alone signaled to me that something may be amiss. I'm afraid that where there is smoke, there's fire.
- JorgeGT 10y ago
  Have you considered NoMachine NX? I found it to be more or less comparable in terms of performance and settled on it because I wasn't very keen of the centralized TV model.
- NTripleOne 10y ago
  Yeah, those invites have been going out for a while now, I've been receiving them for the past 2~3 months. I set up a fresh windows 7 VM with the intention of seeing what would come of the requests - but none of them ever came online after accepting.
JamesSwift 10y ago
Wow, thanks for this. I couldn't find anything in that thread so I'll ask here in case anyone knows: is TeamViewer safe if it's NAT'ed with no open ports, or is there an opportunity when it phones home to compromise the machine?
- cmdrfred 10y ago
  From what I read someone might of hijacked teamviewers DNS records and pointed them at a server they control. People reported logins during the outage and even though they have TFA enabled. I've never heard of using teamviewer solely on the local network, but even so with an attack like that they can probably just push an infected update and own you that way.
fencepost 10y ago
Yesterday's discussion of a possible TeamViewer hack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826431

jasonellis 10y ago

I have found no indication that my TeamViewer computers were hacked, but after reading this for a few days I finally disabled TV on them last night and I'm looking for other solutions. After using TeamViewer for over 5 years, I started getting a handful of invites on the service from random names about a month ago (I had never gotten a single invite prior). That alone signaled to me that something may be amiss. I'm afraid that where there is smoke, there's fire.

JorgeGT 10y ago
Have you considered NoMachine NX? I found it to be more or less comparable in terms of performance and settled on it because I wasn't very keen of the centralized TV model.
NTripleOne 10y ago
Yeah, those invites have been going out for a while now, I've been receiving them for the past 2~3 months. I set up a fresh windows 7 VM with the intention of seeing what would come of the requests - but none of them ever came online after accepting.

JamesSwift 10y ago

Wow, thanks for this. I couldn't find anything in that thread so I'll ask here in case anyone knows: is TeamViewer safe if it's NAT'ed with no open ports, or is there an opportunity when it phones home to compromise the machine?

cmdrfred 10y ago
From what I read someone might of hijacked teamviewers DNS records and pointed them at a server they control. People reported logins during the outage and even though they have TFA enabled. I've never heard of using teamviewer solely on the local network, but even so with an attack like that they can probably just push an infected update and own you that way.

fencepost 10y ago

Yesterday's discussion of a possible TeamViewer hack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826431