A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.
People still use Skype?
If you connect to anything on the internet, you’re giving out your IP address. Why would this be any more of a concern?
Wait you can still do this? I was booting people off games when they would use the same user as their Skype over 10 years as a script kiddie, how is it not patched by now
Huh, the time machine must be off. This was news from a decade ago.
It’s actually one of the main reasons we switched off Skype to Discord for most gaming socialization.
Security research on Skype seems like durability testing a wet paper bag.
They only fix bugs that otherwise would impact their earnings.
Always on VPN is a good idea, or a VPN just for apps you don’t trust (like skype). https://github.com/Safing/portmaster is a nice visual firewall configurator that can do things like, this app, must use the firewall. (easy to configure split firewall)
There ia Very Probably No solution to this
When Skype was still in common use, this was a very known issue. I’m in lots of gaming communities, and you had to be careful about who knew your username because you could have your IP exposed then get DDoS.
Possibly they patched it and this is a new instance of this, but it was like this for years and years before.
Me who hasn’t used Skype in like 15 years: Oh no
How exactly would you stop this on a peer to peer app exactly, wouldn’t you have to route traffic through a centralized proxy?
What the fuck. What percentage of people uses skype? I’d really rather see coverage of the exploits found in discord, zoom, slack, etc.
Pretty sure this was already known. Just even back when Skype was relevant it wasn’t fixed.
