Kills Alone said:
I'm looking out for my friends and their data, whats new? Computer security is something I've been involved with for awhile now, I don't know, maybe read what was linked where it sez the same and links to the TeamViewer Twitter post that sez the same before acting a fool?
On Sunday, TeamViewer spokesman Axel Schmidt acknowledged to Ars that the number of takeovers was "significant," but he continued to maintain that the compromises are the result of user passwords that were compromised through a cluster of recently exposed megabreaches involving more than 642 million passwords belonging to users of LinkedIn, MySpace, and other services.
Yes, the article states it yet 75% of people don't read between the lines... that indicates teamviewer itself is not vulnerable and supports what I've said.
Where you were suggesting that TeamViewer was vulnerable rather then telling people "Don't re-use your password, and change all of them if you've used any of them on MySpace, Linkedin, VK, etc".
Now.... I've also been following security for awhile and have been hired professionally for security auditing, consulting, and pentesting and currently hold a position as a Chief Research officer for a Security firm I don't take internet / cyber or information security lightly which is why fear mongering a software that is not vulnerable due to breaches which happened in a unrelated manner pisses me off.
You're hurting the reputation of that company by claiming that it's anything less then secure or that there's been a breach and they're denying it as it's truly not the case.
In-fact you've said exactly that "Last I read
TeamViewer had been compromised, meaning it is an open door to your PC. Use with extreme caution." which is absolutely not the case and I was providing clarification.
I'm sure at this point I've been 'following' security for a bit longer then you and being someone who develops the tools, finds the bugs, and has played a role on both sides (reporting, protecting, defending / hacking, breaking, destroying) that I have a much better understanding of the on-goings as well.
Now if we're done here I'd like to not be off-topic on a thread which regards halo2 rather then discussing the mis-guided postings of people claiming a software is vulnerable when it's clearly not and there has been no official statement of such from any reputable security vendor or the company itself stating anything otherwise.
