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 officer, Harry Moseley told CNBC-TV18 that the company is discussing the "specific security issues" that forced the government to issue the advisory. Zoom also responded to the government's advisory with a statement that reads - "A large number of global institutions ranging from the world’s largest financial services companies and telecommunications providers, to non-governmental organisations and government agencies, have done exhaustive security reviews of our user, network and data centre layers and continue to use Zoom for most or all of their unified communications needs."

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Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data
1 year, 5 months ago

Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data

Wired  

Recently, Zoom amended its terms of service to grant itself the right to use any assets—such as video recordings, audio transcripts, or shared files—either uploaded or generated by "users" or "customers." Then, the company added to its terms of service that "notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video, or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models …

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 …

No, it doesn’t need to be a Zoom
3 years, 6 months ago

No, it doesn’t need to be a Zoom

Wired  

Sravya Attaluri’s design studio is one of the many new businesses created during the pandemic. Founded in Hong Kong because Attaluri was trapped there due to Covid-19 and travel bans, the studio’s six employees are scattered across the world – in India, Hong Kong and the United States. They also began to resent appearing on camera every day: they’d got …

Zoom to Temporarily Remove Its 40-Minute Time Limit on Video Calls for Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year
4 years ago

Zoom to Temporarily Remove Its 40-Minute Time Limit on Video Calls for Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year

News 18  

Video conferencing platform Zoom has announced that it will forego its 40-minute time limit on the final days of Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Years. The development essentially means that regular Zoom users across the world, including those in India, can connect with friends and family members over a video call on these days without any time cap. In a blog …

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 …

Is Zoom Video Calling app banned in India? Is Zoom safe to use on Android, iOS?
4 years, 6 months ago

Is Zoom Video Calling app banned in India? Is Zoom safe to use on Android, iOS?

India TV News  

Is Zoom banned in India? But does the list of apps include the popular video conferencing app Zoom? No, as of now, India has not announced any ban on the Zoom Video Calling app. Other video calling apps that can be used in the country include Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google Meet and more. Xiaomi's own Mi Video call app has …

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 users vulnerable to cyber threats': Plea in SC seeks ban on video calling app till a legislation is put in place
4 years, 7 months ago

'Zoom users vulnerable to cyber threats': Plea in SC seeks ban on video calling app till a legislation is put in place

Firstpost  

A petition in the Supreme Court has raised privacy concerns over communications app ‘‘Zoom’’ and sought a direction to the Centre to ban its use for official as well as personal purposes until an appropriate legislation is put in place. A petition in the Supreme Court has raised privacy concerns over communications app Zoom and sought a direction to the …

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 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 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, …

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 …

India tells government officials to stop using Zoom after deeming it 'not a safe platform'
4 years, 8 months ago

India tells government officials to stop using Zoom after deeming it 'not a safe platform'

Daily Mail  

The Indian government is advising workers to steer clear of the video conferencing platform, Zoom, over concerns with its security. As reported by TechCrunch, India's Cyber Coordination Centre issued an advisory to employees in India's government this week calling it 'not a safe platform.' India's primary cyber security agency is recommending that government employees refrain from using video calling service …

‘Zoom’ is not a safe platform, says MHA advisory
4 years, 8 months ago

‘Zoom’ is not a safe platform, says MHA advisory

The Hindu  

The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an advisory that Zoom video conference is not a safe platform. CERT-In’s 2 advisories The advisory said the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team issued two advisories on February 6 and in March, cautioning on the use of Zoom for office meetings. Insecure usage of the platform may allow cyber criminals to access sensitive …

'Zoom is not a safe platform': MHA issues advisory for users
4 years, 8 months ago

'Zoom is not a safe platform': MHA issues advisory for users

India TV News  

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday said the Zoom meeting app is not a safe platform for video conference, issuing a set of guidelines for the safety of private users who "still would like to use Zoom for private purpose". According to advisory, MHA has deemed Zoom as an unsafe platform and it is asking individuals using the video …

Indian govt advisory says avoid using Zoom: Why and what to do if you HAVE to use Zoom
4 years, 8 months ago

Indian govt advisory says avoid using Zoom: Why and what to do if you HAVE to use Zoom

India Today  

In a fresh blow to Zoom, India's Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday issued an advisory on the use of the video conferencing app. Zoom has emerged as a one-stop solution for video meetings among users during the covid-19-induced lockdown globally. Previously, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, cautioned the users in the US on using Zoom for their …

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 …

Singapore bans Zoom app for online classes: Here is what happened
4 years, 8 months ago

Singapore bans Zoom app for online classes: Here is what happened

Op India  

Singapore government has suspended the use of Zoom Video Communications Inc’s conferencing app for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. Read: Taiwan government bans the use of Zoom software over ‘cybersecurity concerns’ Ms Loh said that her daughter, who studies in a school in the eastern part of Singapore, told her about the …

Video meet app Zoom sued by investor over security issues
4 years, 9 months ago

Video meet app Zoom sued by investor over security issues

The Hindu  

Zoom Video Communications has been sued by one of its shareholders who alleged that the company kept some of its security flaws hidden. Investor Michael Drieu filed the class action suit even as several organisations, including the New York City’s Department of Education, started banning the usage of the app for remote learning and working from home purposes. Zoom started …

Zoom admits routing user data through China, says govt customers unaffected
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoom admits routing user data through China, says govt customers unaffected

India Today  

Zoom has admitted that it routed some calls through China, raising far bigger questions on the flourishing video conferencing app. Due to a sudden surge in the number of users, Zoom had to ramp up its server capacity wherein it "mistakenly" let some calls from North America visit Chinese servers as a backup to overcome congestion. As a result, it …

Zoom video calling app exposing users to ‘Zoombombing’ that leads to online abuse
4 years, 9 months ago

Zoom video calling app exposing users to ‘Zoombombing’ that leads to online abuse

Firstpost  

In recent weeks, as schools, businesses, support groups and millions of individuals have adopted Zoom as a meeting platform in an increasingly remote world, reports of “Zoombombing” or “Zoom raiding” by uninvited participants have become frequent. “Zoom’s response was like, ‘We’re sorry,’ as if this only happened to me,” said Dennis Johnson, a doctoral candidate who complained to Zoom after …

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 …

More troubles for Zoom: Elon Musk's SpaceX bans employees from using video conferencing app
4 years, 9 months ago

More troubles for Zoom: Elon Musk's SpaceX bans employees from using video conferencing app

India Today  

In what comes as a setback of Zoom, the Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has banned its employees from using the video conferencing app, owing to the security concerns that have arisen recently. Zoom is used by some top-level corporates, including SpaceX and NASA for their day-to-day video communication with employees, which needs to be tightly secured as much as …

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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