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Citing Attack, GoToMyPC Resets All Passwords (krebsonsecurity.com)

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

Security reporter Brian Krebs writes:GoToMyPC, a service that helps people access and control their computers remotely over the Internet, is forcing all users to change their passwords, citing a spike in attacks that target people who re-use passwords across multiple sites. Owned by Santa Clara, Calif. based networking giant Citrix, GoToMyPC is a popular software-as-a-service product that lets users access and control their PC or Mac from anywhere in the world. On June 19, the company posted a status update and began notifying users that a system-wide password update was underway.

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  1. Rename Company To JackMyPC by zenlessyank · · Score: 2

    Free demo now!!

    1. Re:Rename Company To JackMyPC by tlhIngan · · Score: 2

      What I don't understand is how companies can sell something that is already free. Windows remote desktop and putty have been free forever. Plus there are other alternatives that I don't feel like listing. If you are dumb enough to pay for something that is free, then you deserve to get jacked!

      Ask Microsoft/Apple. I mean, Linux is free, why should anyone use Windows or macOS? Hell, why do people pay RedHat billions of dollars a year for Linux? It's all free, after all.

      The answer is, the commercial tools have better support. GoToMyPC, TeamViewer, etc, are all very handy utilities if the person you're dealing with on the other end is having difficulty. If they can get on the internet, GoToMyPC and its ilk work great for remote support. No routers to fiddle with, no complex setup involved - all you have to do is get them to run an executable and enter in a few values and you can diagnose why they can't connect to the corporate LAN over VPN (remote desktop is unencrypted, and unless you port forward, if you can't VPN in, you can't use it).

      Hell, paying for a yearly license at $144, that's pretty cheap. If you have to walk a user through the steps of downloading and using puTTY and Remote Desktop, that could easily take at least 2-3 hours in time and untold frustration. $144 is pretty cheap to turn an aggravating time into one that can get people on their way in 10 minutes

  2. Re:Password Managers, people by PCM2 · · Score: 2

    Serious question: How's that work for you when you regularly use six different computers?

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  3. Re:Password Managers, people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not quite six, but KeePass2 and Dropbox works pretty well for home and work.

  4. Err, correction to the headlines by luis_a_espinal · · Score: 2

    Owned by Santa Clara, Calif. based networking giant Citrix Err, Citrix is based in Ft. Lauderdale, and with the recent layoffs in Santa Clara, it is become clearer Citrix is circling its wagons back to South Florida (for better or worse, time will tell.)

  5. Dropbox and security? by dbIII · · Score: 3

    Normally when Dropbox is mentioned and the topic is security it's referring to one of their many spectacular fuckups.
    Able to download the files of others by knowing the filename and hash - that was Dropbox when people used this bug as an alternative to bittorrent for a while.
    Able to login to other people's accounts without a password - Dropbox was wide open one day with that massive fuckup.
    Using the interface to revoke other people's access to your files, getting told that it had worked, then those other people found they could still get the files - Dropbox again.


    And that's just the stuff that has had dedicated articles about it on Slashdot.
    If you don't want your worst enemy, a potential thief, or your mother to see something then don't put it on Dropbox.