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TeamViewer got hacked(www.teamviewer.com)

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

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I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world
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I’m glad Rustdesk exists.

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

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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Rust desk is super based. And their software performs MILES better than Teamviewer’s shitty compression ever did.

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Sentient_Modem@lemm.ee
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Super based? Am I getting old? What does that even mean?

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llii@discuss.tchncs.de
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It means it’s great.

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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Sorry you had to find out this way, but yes- your hip and fly is gone!

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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It means we are getting old.

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yeehaw@lemmy.ca
22 points

TIL, thanks!

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taiyang@lemmy.world
16 points

Thanks, I’ll look into it also. I needed this a couple weeks ago but better late than never!

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hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
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100%. Just self host their server components,otherwise it’s kind of slow. It’s an open alternative to Anydesk,which is still miles better than TeamViewer.

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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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Expensive though

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I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world
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I’m self hosting it, costs me nothing.

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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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Individual self-hosting plan $9.90/month

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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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?

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JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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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…

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yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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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.

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

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Meltrax@lemmy.world
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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.

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14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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Rustdesk

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AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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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.

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stoy@lemmy.zip
52 points

…again

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tordenflesk@lemmy.world
34 points

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

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jas0n@lemmy.world
7 points

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

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TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
3 points

I want to see a picture of you from when you are going to be older

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Thurstylark@lemm.ee
42 points

…again

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MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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I find myself adding this to a lot of hack/breach headlines lately

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I’ve never heard of TeamViewer being used for anything but refund scams and the like.

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

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cuuube@lemmy.world
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I use it to become the remote tech support person whenever my dad has trouble using his phone lol

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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You can use it for PHONES?! That’s a pretty dope use case actually.

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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I know a professional software that has it bundled for support calls.

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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Noted! I think I’ve watched too much Kitboga. But I’m not stopping.

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umbrella@lemmy.ml
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my company used it for remote support

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