Brute-Force Protection - TeamViewer Support
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p><br></p><h2 data-id="general">General</h2><div class="blockquote"><div class="blockquote-content"><p class="blockquote-line"><em>This article applies to all TeamViewer users.</em></p></div></div><p>Prospective customers who inquire about the security of TeamViewer regularly ask about encryption.</p><p>Understandably, the risk that a third party could monitor the connection or that the TeamViewer access data is being tapped is feared most.</p><p>However, the reality is that rather primitive attacks are often the most dangerous ones. In the context of computer security, a brute-force attack is a trial-and-error-method to guess a password that is protecting a resource.</p><p>With the growing computing power of standard computers, the time needed for guessing long passwords has been increasingly reduced. As a defence against brute-force attacks, TeamViewer exponentially increases the latency between connection attempts.</p><p>It thus takes as many as 17 hours for 24 attempts. The latency is only reset after successfully entering the correct password. TeamViewer not only has a mechanism in place to protect its customers from attacks from one specific computer but also from multiple computers, known as botnet attacks, that are trying to access one particular TeamViewer-ID.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6032394/uploads/456786YKQTQE/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6032394/uploads/456786YKQTQE/image.png" alt="image.png" height="768" width="999" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h3></h3> </article> </main>
