It has been reported that Zoom is upgrading the encryption features on its video conferencing app to better safeguard meeting data and offer protection against tampering. The new version of the app, Zoom 5.0, will release within the week, the company said in a statement. Zoom, which has soared to 200 million daily users from 10 million in less than three months, had faced backlash from users after security researchers found bugs in its codes and the company failing to disclose that its service was not end-to-end encrypted. The app’s issues, including “Zoombombing” incidents where uninvited guests crash meetings, led to several companies, schools and governments to stop using the platform.
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Much of the controversy swirling around Zoom security has to do with the claim of “end-to-end security.”
Much of the controversy swirling around Zoom security has to do with the claim of “end-to-end security.” For cybersecurity experts and privacy advocates, this means that information encrypted at one end of the conversation travels over the network and is decrypted at the other end of the conversation. Zoom’s interpretation of “end-to-end security” does vary from this; while information is always encrypted in transit, it gets decrypted and encrypted again as it passes through Zoom’s.....Read More
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