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The chemical is used to help officials manage the town’s potable water PH levels. On Monday, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri explained during a press conference that an employee at Oldsmar’s water treatment facility saw his mouse moving independently of him on Friday morning but thought nothing of it-it’s common for people in the field to remotely access systems through their TeamViewer software.īut it happened again later that afternoon, according to Gualtieri, and this time the person moving the mouse changed the levels of lye, or sodium hydroxide, from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. How to secure your email via encryption, password management and more (TechRepublic Premium) How to improve security awareness and training for your employees Must-read security coverageĨ5% of Android users are concerned about privacyĪlmost 2,000 data breaches reported for the first half of 2022 Local officials said someone took over their TeamViewer system and dangerously increased the levels of lye in the town's water.įederal law enforcement is now looking into a cyberattack at a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, FL where someone was able to remotely access systems and add a dangerous amount of chemicals to the town’s water supply. So whenever somebody hacks into my TV account (due to whatever reasons), the hacker will automatically get access to all machines that are linked to my TV account.FBI, Secret Service investigating cyberattack on Florida water treatment plant

When establishing a connection to any of my remote machines I never get asked to enter any password.

On my local machine I open TeamViewer and log into my account.

I have set a "personal password (for unattended access)".Īnd I have not enabled the checkbox to grant my account "easy access". So on the target machines I have installed either TeamViewer Host 10.x or the full version - and linked it to my TeamViewer account.

Is currently introducing Trusted Devices and Data Integrityīut I'm having difficulties in understanding the exact security configuration of TeamViewer.įor family and friends I'm doing a lot of "remote administration" (unattended access) and "remote support".

Strongly recommends to enable Two-Factor Authentication.

Strongly recommends to change your passwords frequently.

Strongly recommends to use different credentials for different services.

So they try to use the same username and password for.

Now by some leak, hackers get access to cleartext contents of my LinkedIn account.And I use the same username and password at TeamViewer.I have an account at LinkedIn with and password "Banana53".There have been hacking activities through TeamViewer.Ĭurrently it seems this was mainly because of careless end users.