Panic Button is an Audio-Visual Parachute Out of Zoom Calls

Everyone has been learning how to stream this year whether they want to or not. This has given rise to the embarrassment paradox, which states that the more urgently you need to kill your camera and microphone feeds in a videoconference call, the more difficult and time-consuming it will be. …read more

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News Wrap: Twitter Hack, Apple Under Fire and Global Privacy Finger Wags

Threatpost editors talk about the biggest security news stories for the week ended Jul. 24. Continue reading News Wrap: Twitter Hack, Apple Under Fire and Global Privacy Finger Wags

Cisco, Zoom and Others Must Bolster Security, Say Privacy Chiefs

Privacy commissioners worldwide urged video conferencing systems like Microsoft, Cisco and Zoom to adopt end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication and other security measures. Continue reading Cisco, Zoom and Others Must Bolster Security, Say Privacy Chiefs

Zoom Addresses Vanity URL Zero-Day

An attacker could pose as a company employee, invite customers or partners to meetings, then use socially engineered conversation to extract sensitive information. Continue reading Zoom Addresses Vanity URL Zero-Day

Quickly Mute and Unmute Yourself Using the Physical Mute Button

With many conferences moving to fully virtual this year, video conferencing will continue to be a mainstay in our lives for the foreseeable future. [Elliot] wanted to spice up his video conferencing experience just a bit and make his experience a bit more ergonomic. We’ve all had the problem of …read more

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Emergence’s Jason Green thinks some of the tech backlash is justified, but the B2B opportunities still outweigh the challenges

Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, is one of the leading VCs investing in enterprise startups at the moment. But even with the focus on B2B, many of their companies have become household names — Zoom, Yammer, Box and Salesforce among them. Now, we’re all living in a climate where everything has been turned […] Continue reading Emergence’s Jason Green thinks some of the tech backlash is justified, but the B2B opportunities still outweigh the challenges

Zoom for Home: New category to support business professionals working remotely

Zoom Video Communications announced Zoom for Home, a new category of software experiences and hardware devices to support remote work use cases. In a time where employers are grappling with what the new normal of work will look like, Zoom for Home elev… Continue reading Zoom for Home: New category to support business professionals working remotely

Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599

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

Researchers extract personal data from video conference screenshots

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