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Sale of .Org Registry to Private Equity Vampires Stalled After California AG Warning

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed a decision on whether to allow the sale of the organization that controls .org registrations to a band of private equity ghouls after the California attorney general’s office issued a warning Domain names with .org suffix are used by countless nonprofits, in part because the nonprofit selected by ICANN to run the .org… Read more

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Zoom’s Security Improvements

As we continue on our 90-day plan to improve the security and privacy of our platform, this week’s “Ask Eric Anything” webinar focused on recent product security updates, including the successful rollout of Zoom 5.0 and GCM encryption for every free and paid Zoom account. Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan was joined by Zoom CPO Oded Gal for this week’s session.… Read more

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Porn Filters Compared: OpenDNS, Neustar, CleanBrowsing, Norton, Yandex and AdGuard

On a recent post, I provided some details on a disappointing test with a few free DNS resolvers that were supposed to block access to phishing and malicious domains. In summary: they did not work as expected. To be fair to them, my testing was not very scientific as I only got a few random malicious domains from pishtank, malware domains and my email, and expected them to be blocked.… Read more

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The Indian government is the latest to come out against ‘unsafe’ Zoom

Source: Zoom What you need to know The Indian government has issued an advisory to its employees, declaring the app ‘unsafe.’Another government report also warned of significant weakness in the app that made it vulnerable to cyber-attacks.This follows similar moves by Google and various governmental agencies from Taiwan, the U.K., Singapore, and Germany. After lucking out as the app of choice for video calls during the early stages of the crisis, things have generally been going downhill for Zoom since then.… Read more

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Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox

Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them. From a report: One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking competition sponsored by Dropbox. At 30,000 feet, with nothing but a slow internet connection, they decided to get a head start by hacking Zoom, a videoconferencing service that they knew was used by many Dropbox employees.… Read more