Zoom is urging Zoom Rooms administrators to update their rooms as Zoom rolls out version 5.0 to provide greater security and privacy. The urging comes as Zoom mandates that Zoom Rooms be updated to meet the minimum requirements for Zoom 5.0 and for GCM encryption, which are now required for all meetings. A new security […]
Our homes have become our workplaces before we even realized it. Now, technology solutions providers like Crestron, Logitech and Zoom are beginning to realize this and bring us products to help truly transform our homes into workspaces. Crestron, a giant in audiovisual and integration equipment, is collaborating with remote work providers Logitech and Zoom to […]
Zoom is inching closer to offering end-to-end encryption after publishing a draft cryptographic design for the security feature that is coming to fruition as part of the company’s three-month plan to bolster its security and privacy stature. The draft comes shortly after Zoom acquired Keybase, a secure messaging service company that is supposed to help […]
Zoom’s usage has exploded since the coronavirus pandemic forced workers across the world to work remotely, and the platform has largely held up to accommodate that large increase in traffic. That’s why it was a bit of a surprise as the service went down for a significant length of time Sunday, affecting churches and other […]
Oklahoma City University held a virtual commencement recently that was hijacked by “Zoombombs” that let hackers disrupt the event with racial slurs and a swastika. The online event was intended to give the school’s approximately 650 graduates some semblance of the pomp and circumstance they missed because the in-person commencement ceremony was cancelled due to […]
Hackers are continuing to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic and find new ways to steal our information and compromise organizational networks. According to Check Point Research, cybercriminals are meeting end users where they are, and these days that is on videoconferencing and collaboration platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Google Meet. Hackers are […]
New York City teachers will once again be allowed to use Zoom to connect with their students for remote learning. That’s according to a statement released by the New York City Department of Education on Wednesday, which announced the reversal of the department’s previous ban of the platform. In early April, the department told teachers to stop […]
Zoom has taken great lengths to assure us that the company is doing everything it can to boost the security of its popular videoconferencing and collaboration platform, including embarking on a 90-day plan to strengthen its safety and introducing new security features. The company just took another big step by acquiring Keybase, makers of a […]
Large parts of the U.S. are essentially running on virtual meeting platforms like Zoom, WebEx, Microsoft Teams, BlueJeans and others thanks to the coronavirus forcing organizations to quickly shift to remote work. As with any new technology, organizations must take steps to ensure that it is secure and safe from malicious actors and cybercriminals. That’s […]
Hackers are finding all sorts of ways to compromise our systems while we work remotely, and much of that activity is coming through applications currently in demand, like videoconferencing and collaboration platforms. Zoom has become one of the more popular platforms and hackers are taking notice — including leveraging Zoom installers to spread a cryptocurrency […]
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