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TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained

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Re: Happened last week

OpenSSH (and it's ilk) isn't exactly free of CVEs either and enabling X11 forwarding does significantly increase your attack surface. Granted though that is whole different league of (much smaller) risk compared to running team viewer on a windows machine logged in as a user with admin privileges.

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