Taiwan’s Executive Yuan issued an advisory on Tuesday barring the country’s government agencies from using Zoom and other video software with “associated security or privacy concerns.” Instead, the government said alternatives, including software from Google …

In a staggeringly short amount of time, the coronavirus pandemic has upended daily life in the U.S., forcing people to quickly recalibrate how they live their lives in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, the official term for the disease caused by the virus…

Zoom, the company most of the world didn’t know existed before quarantine, is being banned from New York City classrooms due to some increasingly disturbing instances of “Zoombombing.” Zoombombing, which the FBI has previously warned against, is a newish tren…

Reuters/Carlo Allegri Zoom has admitted that some call data was routed through China for non-China users. CEO Eric Yuan said the calls were routed "mistakenly" after the company ramped up capacity to cope with a huge increase in demand. Separately, researcher…

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The public's generally blasé attitude towards online privacy finally seems to have met its match — in video chatting. On Friday, New York City banned its schools from using Zoom after determining the platform wasn't private and secure enough. Like organizatio…

New York City teachers are banned from using Zoom for virtual teaching after the Department of Education cited safety and privacy concerns. Schools are instead being directed to use Microsoft Teams, which the department has reportedly already started training…

Concerns about Zoom's security are having a real impact on its use in remote education. Some US school districts, including large ones like New York City and Nevada's Clark County, have banned or disabled Zoom over security and privacy worries. Others, such a…

Trolls. Prying bosses. Zoom's a great video chat platform, but a few simple steps also make it a safe one.

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After facing heavy criticism for the way it handles privacy and security, the video conferencing service Zoom is making a few very necessary updates. Beginning April 5, all meetings going forward will have automatically enabled password protection and waiting…

Zoom will make a couple of important security changes in an effort to prevent trolls from crashing shared video calls on the app. To be exact, it will require passwords to enter calls and will switch on waiting rooms by default starting on April 5th. The plat…

With people forced out of their offices and schools to avoid spreading coronavirus, there are more video calls going on than ever. However, a significant chunk of the action has gone to Zoom, and not Skype, Microsoft's product that has been at the center of o…

Hours after security researchers at Citizen Lab reported that some Zoom calls were routed through China, the video conferencing platform has offered an apology and a partial explanation. To recap, Zoom has faced a barrage of headlines this week over its secur…

Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as trolls attack publicly-shared video calls. Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID, since these may be guessed or reused. Meanwhile, it will change virtual wai…

The service's mixed messages have frustrated cryptographers, as the US government and other sensitive organizations increasingly depend on it.

Two years ago, after Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal came to the fore, there was a new story of the social network’s privacy and security mishap every other day. In the past couple of weeks, video conferencing Zoom has found itself in a similar boat. S…

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It’s becoming pretty clear that Zoom was not ready for the influx of users it received due to the coronavirus pandemic. The latest issue discovered with the video teleconferencing platform: the service has been secretly collecting your LinkedIn data and shari…

With millions of people self-isolating around the world, video chat services have become very popular, but do they pose a risk to our privacy and security? SpaceX thinks so, as it just banned the use of Zoom by all employees. As Reuters reports, on March 28 S…

It's called "Zoom-bombing," and in the age of coronavirus, when all meetings have had to go digital, it's the newest way hackers are wreaking havoc.

While the world is sitting at home, video calling and conferencing apps are having the time of their lives. Zoom is probably one of the most used apps, the most controversial one as well. In the past few weeks, it has reached the peak of its popularity with m…

Video conferencing Zoom has been criticized for privacy and security issues on its platform. CEO Eric Yuan apologized for the problems in a blog post, saying Zoom wasn't built to handle the number of consumers now using its platform. Yuan said the firm now ha…

Zoom has been widely criticized over the past couple of weeks for terrible security, a poorly designed screensharing feature, misleading dark pattern, fake end-to-end-encryption claims and an incomplete privacy policy. Despite that, the video conferencing ser…