Following on from the FBI warning about using the American remote conferencing services company Zoom, due to the rise in “Zoombombing”, please see below for comments from cybersecurity expert on what the real risk of using Zoom and how to mitigate these risks.
Experts Comments
There have been some serious flaws affecting almost all Zoom products.
The main ongoing privacy concern with Zoom is that the employees of Zoom can view people’s video/audio. This doesn’t mean they do, but architecturally they can. The same is also true for Teams, Skype and most other video conferencing systems.
Separate from the overall way that Zoom works, there have been several publicly disclosed vulnerabilities:
1) 2018 – Manipulate meetings/send fake messages
2) 2019 – Force users to join malicious video calls
3) 2019 – Critical code.....Read More
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