Keep the Crashers Out of Your Zoom
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https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/20/keep-the-party-crashers-from-crashing-your-zoom-event/
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How to Secure Your Zoom Meetings from Zoom-Bombing Attacks
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he Intercept reported that Zoom video calls are not end-to-end encrypted, despite the company’s claims that they are.
Motherboard reports that Zoom is leaking the email addresses of “at least a few thousand” people because personal addresses are treated as if they belong to the same company
Apple was forced to step in to secure millions of Macs after a security researcher found Zoom failed to disclose that it installed a secret web server on users’ Macs, which Zoom failed to remove when the client was uninstalled
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‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform
security researchers have called Zoom “a privacy disaster” and “fundamentally corrupt” as allegations of the company mishandling user data snowball.
A report from Motherboard found Zoom sends data from users of its iOS app to Facebook for advertising purposes, even if the user does not have a Facebook account.
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Zoom’s security and privacy problems are snowballing from r/technology
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this Tweet threads informative:
Zoom has skyrocketed to 200 million daily active users. That’s almost the size of Snapchat (218m)
The next generation of social apps will feel more like Zoom than Snapchat
— Greg Isenberg (@gregisenberg) April 2, 2020
I used to thoroughly love @zoom_us as a platform for collaborating. I still use it. But it’s not something that I would recommend to others anymore. Here’s a thread as to why:
— George Siemens (@gsiemens) April 1, 2020
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Holding Class on Zoom? Beware of These Hacks, Hijinks and Hazards https://t.co/JO0jStW8Bm pic.twitter.com/5WC74i4o7M
— Ana Cristina Pratas (@AnaCristinaPrts) April 8, 2020