TeamViewer Launches New Security Tools After This Week's Mysterious Events

  • 4 June 2016
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Company boosts TeamViewer app security with two new features called Trusted Devices and Data Integrity

 
Jun 3, 2016 23:25 GMT  ·  By Catalin Cimpanu TeamViewer announced two new features today aimed at boosting the app's security after the company's reputation was smirched this week following a DDoS attack that downed its servers, during which many users flocked online to complain about getting hacked.
 
The two new features are called Trusted Devices and Data Integrity. The company says the first feature was specifically designed in order to prevent attackers from taking over user account.
 
Trusted Devices works by monitoring a user's account. When the user uses a new device to log into his TeamViewer account, before being granted access, the user must click a link he received inside a validation email sent to the account owner's email address.
 
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Sounds like a good move...wil have to investigate this more closely as I use TeamViewer, as I know that you do to. ;)
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TeamViewer announced yesterday that it has started to roll out two new protective features for the popular remote desktop software.
There has been lots of talk about TeamViewer's recent service outage and the increase in reports on various Internet sites that customer accounts were hacked.
TeamViewer denies that the service itself has been hacked or that the recent service outage has anything to do with the increase in compromised user accounts.
The company suggests that the increase may be related to the recent leak of hundreds of million user account information from MySpace and Tumblr.          
 
 http://www.ghacks.net/2016/06/05/teamviewer-protective-features/

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