We are commercial licensees of TeamViewer (we use it for remote live support). It is thought that the accounts that were breached are some that used the same passwords as those swept up in recent mega-breaches of MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. When this happened there was also a surge in Denial of Service attacks.

This is called 2FA, or two-factor-authentication. There is another feature in TeamViewer that can be enabled. If the credentials were stolen, they are now rendered useless. This means that every TeamViewer User account needs to enter a new password. It is currently thought that those users were people who use the same password across many accounts. Password Reset : TeamViewer has marked ALL user accounts to renew their password. No one has provided any specific attack vector. There was recently a surge in reports from TeamViewer users of their accounts being broken into.

In 2019, Florida saw the most migration from Northeast states including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to the Census Bureau, in addition to states in the Midwest.Just to put this into perspective - the only confirmed TeamViewer hack involves a convoluted series of events that includes the user of TeamViewer to visit a malicious website that includes content which launches TeamViewer from within the browser via an HTML tag, then TeamViewer would initiate a WIndows SMB (remote file) share, and the malicious actor could capture the SMB login info, gaining access to the file system. Southwest Florida's population has 'exploded in part because it's the cheapest part of the state to live,' according to Jesse Keenan, a professor of sustainable real estate at Tulane University's School of Architecture, who told CNN that 'there has been a huge amount of growth in the past several decades.'įlorida, which has a reputation for attracting retirees, has recently drawn new residents from parts of the country that historically don't have much experience with hurricanes.

By 2021 it had ballooned to more than 787,000. The population in the Fort Myers-Cape Coral metro area was around 444,000 in 2000, according to Census Bureau data. And the Fort Myers area, which was ravaged by Ian's deadly storm surge, was recently named the sixth fastest-growing city in the country by the US Census Bureau. Hurricane Ian last week slammed into one of the fastest-growing areas of the country, putting hundreds of thousands of people in harm's way - many of whom had never experienced a hurricane.įlorida has added nearly 3 million people since 2010.

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