Mysterious TeamViewer hacking
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 4:11 am
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06 ... -know-how/ 
Fortunately for me, I don't use TeamViewer type software. But it's still a pretty scary thought that hackings of this type and scale is potentially the consequences of the recent "extra-big" password hash dumps from major sites unrelated to the breached service:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05 ... passwords/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05 ... n-thought/
I guess we can still hope it's just the usual carelessness, such as users doing stuff like re-using [weak] passwords etc...
Fortunately for me, I don't use TeamViewer type software. But it's still a pretty scary thought that hackings of this type and scale is potentially the consequences of the recent "extra-big" password hash dumps from major sites unrelated to the breached service:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05 ... passwords/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05 ... n-thought/
I guess we can still hope it's just the usual carelessness, such as users doing stuff like re-using [weak] passwords etc...