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I generally share a smattering of links like these: Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws https://www.fastcompany.com/904865
by miles 6y ago
I generally share a smattering of links like these:
Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-york-city-schools-due-to-privacy-and-security-flaws https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-yo...
Google Told Its Workers That They Can’t Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans-zoom https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...
Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/elon-musks-spacex-bans-zoom-over-privacy-concerns-memo-idUSKBN21J71H https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/e...
Beware of ‘ZoomBombing:’ screensharing filth to video calls https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/zoombombing/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/zoombombing/
Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/ https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
Zoom security issues: Here's everything that's gone wrong (so far https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes
Mass move to work from home in coronavirus crisis creates opening for hackers: cyber experts https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/mass-move-to-work-from-home-in-coronavirus-crisis-creates-opening-for-hackers-cyber-experts-idUSKBN2153YC https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/...
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_...
‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-tech...
Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nsa-hacker-drops-zero-140020837.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nsa-hacker-drops-zero-1400...
Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/
Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpatched-zoom-bug-lets-attackers-steal-windows-credentials-with-no-warning/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpat...
The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-backlash-zero-days/ https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-backlash-zero-days/
Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdqgv/hackers-selling-critical-zoom-zero-day-exploit-for-500000 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdqgv/hackers-selling-cr...
Researchers found and bought more than 500,000 Zoom passwords on the dark web for less than a cent each https://www.businessinsider.com/500000-zoom-accounts-sale-dark-web-2020-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/500000-zoom-accounts-sale-da...
- shacrw 6y agoThe above China concern is legit but a lot of the issues in the above links have been fixed in the updates ~2 months back.
- orsenthil 6y agoI relied on Mozilla's guide and they seem to be perfectly OK with recommending Zoom as a video conferencing app https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/video-call-apps/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor...
- staycoolboy 6y agoThis is very interesting. I do trust mozilla. However many of the security concerns stem from the dubious thing the Zoom installer does, which Mozilla's scorecard does not cover. I feel a little more at east with a Mozilla recommendation, however.