Collaborate Disseminate
Hang up your car phone and toss that fax machine in the garbage. Even back in the late 80s it was possible to do away with these primitive technologies in favor of video conferencing, even though this technology didn’t catch on en masse until recently. In fact, Mitsubishi released a …read more
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This is one of those so-simple-I-wish-I-invented-it hacks. Professor [Michael Peshkin] is teaching his engineering students remotely. While he has a nice second camera that he can use to transmit whatever he doodles on paper, most of his students just have the single webcam built into their laptops.
The solution is …read more
2FA makes Zoom video-conferencing accounts harder for hackers to compromise Users given option of app-based or SMS-based 2FA Admins can set 2FA policy for different user groups We’ve said it once, we’ve said it twice, we’ve said it one hundred times. H… Continue reading Secure Your Zoom Account with Two-Factor Authentication
Video conferencing platform Zoom is finally offering all users the option to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure their accounts against credential stuffing attacks and attacks leveraging phished login credentials. How to enable Zoom 2FA on… Continue reading How to add 2FA to your Zoom account
We’ve all been in a video conference, especially this year, when the neighbor started mowing the lawn or kids were playing outside your window — and it can get pretty loud. Cisco, which owns the WebEx video conferencing service wants to do something about that, and late yesterday it announced it was going to acquire […] Continue reading Cisco acquiring BabbleLabs to filter out the lawn mower screeching during your video conference
54 percent of Americans have opted for virtual visits during pandemic, a CynergisTek survey reveals. Of those, more than 70 percent of respondents plan to continue to use telemedicine post-pandemic. However, healthcare providers should note that privac… Continue reading Telehealth is the future of healthcare, but how secure is it?
Video conferencing is nothing new, but the recent world events have made it much more mainstream than it has been in the past. Luckily, web camera technology is nothing new and most software can also show your screen. But what about your paper documents? Turns out that [John Nelson] can …read more
77 percent of IT professionals believe they were prepared to manage the rapid shift to remote work during the COVID-19 outbreak, according to TeamViewer. Among those surveyed, the percentage working from home had abruptly jumped from 28 percent prior t… Continue reading Businesses prioritize security and collaboration tools to manage sustained remote work environments
Zoom has become the de facto standard for online communications during the pandemic, but the company has found that it’s still a struggle for many employees to set up the equipment and the software to run a meeting effectively. The company’s answer is an all-in-one communications appliance with Zoom software ready to roll in a […] Continue reading Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599
Video conference users should not post screen images of Zoom and other video conference sessions on social media, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers, who easily identified people from public screenshots of video meetings on Zoo… Continue reading Researchers extract personal data from video conference screenshots