The first was an article about how users were upset with LogMeIn price bumps.

One about the TeamViewer hack and one about LogMeIn. This way your remote computer can't be hacked, it's only possible to access it when your account is hacked and there you should of course use at least as strong passwords as for your computers. TeamViewer hack, Teamviewer now charging, teamviewer competitors TeamViewer Hacked, is it worth the cost JSteve White I have seen two articles about some of our larger competitors in the past week. The third and most secure thing you can do, is to disable all passwords and only allow access through your teamviewer account. The outage was caused by a denial-of-service attack (DoS) aimed at the TeamViewer DNS. 12 or more characters long, no words but a random combination of letters, numbers and special characters - there are a lot of password generators out there that could generate good passwords for you. TeamViewer experienced a service outage on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. (I would bet, that this was the way it happened in your case)įor support it would be best to have an option to grant access manually by default.Īs a second action you should use strong passwords. I think it is a very bad idea to have this enabled by default and even worse, that it is only 4 characters by default.

There are a few things you can do to prevent this.įirst, and i think this is always a good idea if you plan unattended access, you should disable the random password.

Teamviewer hacked june 2016