Zoom releases 5.0 update: See what new features it gets and how to handles security issues
4 years, 8 months ago

Zoom releases 5.0 update: See what new features it gets and how to handles security issues

India TV News  

The Zoom video calling platform became the most-used tool amid the Coronavirus lockdown for people to stay connected. As part of the same 90-day plan, Zoom has now released a new update -- the Zoom 5.0 -- with new features, security improvements, and more. Zoom 5.0 update: New features, security enhancements Zoom, via a blog post, has announced its new Zoom 5.0 update, which will be soon available for all users. As part of the new update, Zoom will get the AES 256-bit GCM encryption as the primary feature. Access to cloud recording will now be granted by typing in a password set by admins, contact sharing will now be more secure, and Zoom dashboard will be enhanced to include data centre information.

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Do you regularly attend Zoom meets? This Centre advisory is meant for you
2 years, 3 months ago

Do you regularly attend Zoom meets? This Centre advisory is meant for you

Hindustan Times  

The Narendra Modi government has issued an advisory to the users of video-conferencing platform Zoom. The advisory of medium severity by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, a nodal agency under the ministry of electronics and information technology has flagged ‘multiple vulnerabilities' in Zoom products. The CERT-IN advisory expressed concerns that a successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote …

Zoom has some serious security flaws, govt advises users to update immediately
2 years, 3 months ago

Zoom has some serious security flaws, govt advises users to update immediately

India Today  

Multiple security flaws have been identified on the video conferencing platform Zoom, and the government is advising users to update the platform immediately. According to an Indian Computer Emergency Response Team that deals with cyber security threats, the Zoom vulnerabilities let remote attackers join a meeting without appearing to the other participants. The video conferencing platform explains that On-Premise deployments …

Zoom Has A New Malware Threat That Can Be Used To Attack Your Phone: All Details
2 years, 7 months ago

Zoom Has A New Malware Threat That Can Be Used To Attack Your Phone: All Details

News 18  

Zoom is a popular tool used for video conferencing, and became a hit during the past two years. Zoom has a security flaw that allows attackers to install malware on the device, without the user getting alerted about it. The security flaw has been reported in the Zoom Client for Meetings platform which is available for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows …

Zoom Latest Update for Mac Brings M1 Optimisation, New Features & Bug Fixes for Apple Users
4 years ago

Zoom Latest Update for Mac Brings M1 Optimisation, New Features & Bug Fixes for Apple Users

News 18  

Video conferencing major Zoom has announced its latest update for Mac computers that will start rolling out today, the company announced in a blog post. The new update brings optimisation for Apple’s M1 silicon chip, along with new feature enhancements and a slew of bug fixes. The new update will also bring in a slew of phone features for Zoom …

Zoom Healthcare Customers Now Getting New Features Like Zoom Chat, Phone and More
4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom Healthcare Customers Now Getting New Features Like Zoom Chat, Phone and More

News 18  

Zoom, the video conferencing company has announced a bunch of new features for its healthcare customers to improve telehealth services amid the COVID 19 pandemic. The company is now adding features like Zoom Chat, Zoom record sessions to the cloud, and Zoom Phone for HD voice calling solution via the internet for healthcare customers. All the new features for organisations …

Zoom announces new features for healthcare organisations
4 years, 1 month ago

Zoom announces new features for healthcare organisations

The Hindu  

Zoom has announced new features that will allow healthcare organisations to communicate more effectively using its platform. Using Zoom Chat, healthcare organisations will be able to communicate quickly and securely, and with Zoom’s advanced chat encryption only the intended recipient can read the secured message, Zoom noted in a blog post. For privacy and security, the features allow organisations to …

Zoom Can No Longer Lie to its Users About How Secure Its Service Is, Says US FTC
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom Can No Longer Lie to its Users About How Secure Its Service Is, Says US FTC

News 18  

Zoom, the video conferencing service that overnight became both a messiah and a villain in the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been issued a settlement order by the United States Federal Trade Commission. The main reason behind this was because of how Zoom told its users since 2016 that its video conferencing services offered 256-bit end-to-end encryption, which …

Zoom to enhance security as part of proposed U.S. settlement with FTC
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom to enhance security as part of proposed U.S. settlement with FTC

The Hindu  

Zoom Video Communications Inc must implement a new information security program as part of its proposed settlement with U.S. regulators over user privacy issues, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday. It said Zoom's misleading claims about giving users a secure channel of communication while offering a lower level of protection gave them a false sense of security. “Zoom's security …

Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom Finally Has End-to-End Encryption. Here's How to Use It

Wired  

Zoom has gone from startup to verb in record time, by now the de facto video call service for work-from-home meetings and cross-country happy hours alike. Features like cloud recording, live transcription, breakout rooms, polling, one-on-one chat, and meeting reactions aren’t compatible with end-to-end encryption, and no one can join the meeting before the host does. But while Zoom has …

Zoom End-to-End Encryption is Finally Here, But You'll Sacrifice Many Features for it
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom End-to-End Encryption is Finally Here, But You'll Sacrifice Many Features for it

News 18  

Zoom, which shot to popularity at the onset of the Covid-19 lockdown as the messiah of work from home protocols, is finally rolling out end-to-end encryption across all its apps on various platforms. Zoom’s end-to-end encryption is rolling out effective immediately, and while that is great, enabling it will mean that users will have to sacrifice a number of convenient …

Zoom starts rolling out end-to-end encryption feature, here's how to enable it
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom starts rolling out end-to-end encryption feature, here's how to enable it

India Today  

Zoom has started rolling out the end-to-end encryption feature for both its paid and free users globally. Zoom noted that when users enable the end-to-end encryption nobody except the participant, not even Zoom’s meeting servers have access to the encryption keys that are used to encrypt the meeting. Zoom noted that the end-to-end encryption feature provides an added layer of …

Zoom Will Start Rolling Out Phase 1 of End-to-End Encryption From Next Week
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom Will Start Rolling Out Phase 1 of End-to-End Encryption From Next Week

News 18  

Video conferencing platform Zoom will begin rolling out end-to-end encryption for users starting next week, the company said in a blog post. Next week’s rollout will be phase 1 of a four-stage process to bring end-to-end encryption to Zoom. The next phase for the rollout will include “better identity management and end-to-end encryption SSO integration.” Zoom said that the second …

Zoom set to launch end-to-end encryption for all users next week
4 years, 2 months ago

Zoom set to launch end-to-end encryption for all users next week

India Today  

All Zoom users, free and paid, will be able to use the end-to-end encryption feature starting next week as the video conferencing company rolls out the first phase of a four-step security plan. The end-to-end encryption feature will be available both for those who join and those who host sessions with up to 200 participants as a technical preview, which …

Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption for all users, trial to begin in July
4 years, 6 months ago

Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption for all users, trial to begin in July

The Hindu  

Zoom Video Communications Inc will offer its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said on Wednesday. The company said to help prevent abuse, it will only make the feature available to users who provide a verified phone number. The company has attracted millions of free and …

Zoom India chief says consumers love it, not worried about competitors
4 years, 7 months ago

Zoom India chief says consumers love it, not worried about competitors

India Today  

Zoom is already a household name in India. In an exclusive conversation with India Today Tech, Zoom India head Sameer Raje talks about how the global lockdowns have led to the proliferation of Zoom and other collaboration apps, what the company is doing to make the app, say, useful for life during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, growth in India, …

Zoom vulnerable to foreign surveillance, says US intel report
4 years, 8 months ago

Zoom vulnerable to foreign surveillance, says US intel report

India Today  

Zoom sits atop the concerns around privacy and security currently as people switched to connecting via video meetings amid lockdown. "Zoom’s sudden immense growth and use across both public and private sector entities in combination with its highly publicized cybersecurity issues creates a vulnerable, target-rich environment," noted the report. A Zoom spokesperson told ABC News that the intelligence report is …

Zoom makes privacy and security fixes as millions flock to service
4 years, 8 months ago

Zoom makes privacy and security fixes as millions flock to service

CNN  

CNN Business — Zoom will begin rolling out a long-awaited security update this weekend to deal with widespread complaints of video-conferencing interruptions and other potential meeting vulnerabilities, the company said Wednesday. The issue of “Zoombombing,” in particular, even prompted the FBI to warn the public about video-conferencing calls getting interrupted by “pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language.” The update, …

Zoom says working with Indian government over app security, end-to-end encryption for video meetings
4 years, 8 months ago

Zoom says working with Indian government over app security, end-to-end encryption for video meetings

India Today  

The video conferencing app Zoom is still smarting from the Indian government's rap based on one too many privacy concerns that have gone haywire globally. The Home Ministry cautioned Zoom users over placing their important data with the video conferencing app, in addition to issuing guidelines on how safely video meetings can be held on the platform. Zoom's chief information …

What Makes Zoom App An 'Unsafe' Video Calling Platform?
4 years, 8 months ago

What Makes Zoom App An 'Unsafe' Video Calling Platform?

ABP News  

What Makes Zoom App An 'Unsafe' Video Calling Platform? The well-known Zoom video conferencing app for meetings is not a safe platform, the Cyber Coordination Centre of the Ministry of Home Affairs has warned in an advisory. In the advisory it is mentioned that "secure use of Zoom meeting platform is for private individuals and not for use of government …

Is Zoom safe to use? Here’s what you need to know
4 years, 8 months ago

Is Zoom safe to use? Here’s what you need to know

LA Times  

Lamar Elementary School principal Erin Honeycutt sets up a Zoom class for first- through fifth-graders in Meridian, Miss., in March. Earlier this month, Google warned employees not to use Zoom’s desktop application on their work computers “due to privacy and security vulnerabilities.” SpaceX, the U.S. Senate and New York City’s school district have enacted similar restrictions. Some Zoom users were …

Zoom introduces new security menu so that users can have easy access to privacy tools
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoom introduces new security menu so that users can have easy access to privacy tools

Firstpost  

Zoom has now introduced a dedicated icon for security at the bottom of the screen. Zoom has introduced a new security menu so that users can easily access privacy tools. Zoom CEO Eric S Yuan had recently apologised for the security issues plaguing the video conferencing app, and promised to look into the concerns. https://t.co/Vkbb0osrd2 #meethappy — Zoom April 9, …

So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really?
55 years ago

So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really?

Wired  

The videoconferencing company Zoom has seen its star rise exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic, as friends and coworkers increasingly turn to the service for a communication lifeline. A report in the Intercept on Tuesday noted that, based on its own technical white paper, Zoom had falsely marketed one of its features as making meetings "end-to-end encrypted." Zoom still, though, hasn't …

Zoom: Is it secure, can it be hacked, and how do you use it safely?
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoom: Is it secure, can it be hacked, and how do you use it safely?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A recent report by investigative news outlet The Intercept claimed that Zoom is guilty of “misleading marketing”, …

Zoom video calls are not end-to-end encrypted: What does it mean?
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoom video calls are not end-to-end encrypted: What does it mean?

India Today  

If you have also jumped on the bandwagon and are using Zoom for video conferencing, do it at your own peril since these video meetings are not end-to-end encrypted. While Zoom has stated that it has ensured end-to-end encryption on video calls, a report says otherwise citing an official from the company. The Intercept pointed out in its analysis that …

Zoom, the video conferencing app everyone is using, faces questions over privacy
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoom, the video conferencing app everyone is using, faces questions over privacy

CNN  

CNN Business — The coronavirus outbreak has seen millions of people ordered to stay in their homes flock to Zoom, using the video conference app for everything from brunches and birthday parties to religious events and even a UK cabinet meeting. New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to Zoom on Monday asking whether the company “is taking …

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