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Pirate Bay scare: Torrent flaw could let hackers take control of your computer

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Dissent

Dion Dassanayake reports:

Pirate Bay users are being warned about a torrent security flaw that could expose your computer to being remotely controlled by cybercriminals.

The Pirate Bay fans need to double check which BitTorrent client they are using to manage downloads from the world’s most popular torrent site.

If they have the Transmission BitTorrent client installed, then they need to be aware of a critical weakness in the software.

Read more on Sunday Express.  It’s not just the Transmission BitTorrent client that’s vulnerable, it seems.

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