If this thread is to be believed their statement about TeamViewers products being unaffected is likely not true.

  • @I_Miss_Daniel
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    5 months ago

    I’m glad Rustdesk exists.

    “RustDesk is a full-featured open source remote control alternative for self-hosting and security with minimal configuration.”

  • @[email protected]
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    1185 months ago

    Well this shouldn’t be a problem after the last time they got hacked, because they denied it and blamed the users, so everyone switched to a better product. Not to mention the extortionate rate hikes. Right?

    • JJROKCZ
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      215 months ago

      My secops team has a hardon for teamviewer over something internal only like dameware… I just don’t get why. As soon as they mentioned going to team viewer for remote control I mentioned how terrible teamviewer has been with breaches and notifications of breaches but I think my ciso got a very nice dinner…

      • yeehaw
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        175 months ago

        In my experience, security people are not very good lol. Last 2 teams I interacted with blew my mind on what they deemed ok and not. Like contradictory kind of things.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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          Maybe you have worked at only shitty companies where good secops people didn’t want to stay for long…

    • @Meltrax
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      125 months ago

      What’s a better product? I use TeamViewer as an individual to help my technically illiterate grandparents who live across the country with tech issues. Would love an alternative if there is one.

      • @[email protected]
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        135 months ago

        Rustdesk is great. I’ve also used AnyDesk.

        Recently I’ve used Parsec on a couple systems and it’s zippy, but I can’t get keyboard shortcuts to work for some reason.

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        Anydesk was what I used most recently. They did also have a breach early this year, but they handled it responsibly from what I read.

        If company breaches are unacceptable, there are several selfhosted options, but I haven’t tried any so I can’t make a recommendation.

    • @tordenflesk
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      345 months ago

      They used to get hacked. They still do, but they used to too.

      • @jas0n
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        75 months ago

        You want to see a picture of me when I was younger?

  • @[email protected]
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    335 months ago

    I’ve never heard of TeamViewer being used for anything but refund scams and the like.

    • @Voyajer
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      225 months ago

      I used to use it for remote management of my personal computer until Teamviewer flagged cookie clicker as commercial software and locked my account.

    • @cuuube
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      105 months ago

      I use it to become the remote tech support person whenever my dad has trouble using his phone lol

  • @[email protected]
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    325 months ago

    Based on current findings of the investigation, the attack was contained within the Corporate IT environment and there is no evidence that the threat actor gained access to our product environment or customer data.

    If it were a company other than TeamViewer I’d probably believe them, but since it’s TeamViewer, they could just as easily be lying since they have lied in the past about breaches IIRC.

  • @[email protected]
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    265 months ago

    Thank you, TeamViewer, for flagging my personal use of your software as commercial. I immediately uninstalled it from all my devices, and installed RustDesk in its stead. This was just earlier this year, so you could not have dropped the ball at a better time for me. :)

    • @apex32
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      25 months ago

      Yes, but you need Windows Professional to act as a server. Windows Home editions can only act as a client.

  • @kelargo
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    25 months ago

    But there whole business plan is to perform MIM attacks as a feature.