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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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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.… 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

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Bank Chief Tells Employees: Stay Off Zoom, Google Hangouts

LEON NEAL/AFP Standard Chartered is reportedly the first major global bank to instruct employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app or Google Hangouts during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns. Reuters reports that Standard Chartered is the first major global bank to tell employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app during the coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns.… Read more

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ProtonMail could use Google’s infrastructure to circumvent censorship

ProtonMailImage Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat **This article was updated on March 16, 2020, to reflect additional input from Proton, which told VentureBeat that it would only use Google’s infrastructure in very limited situations — and that it won’t be directing actual connections through Google as this article originally stated. However, due to the nature of this new tool and the adversaries that it is looking to counter, the company is unable to disclose exactly how the technology works.… Read more