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Numerous instances of online conferences being disrupted by pornographic images, hate speech or even threats can be mitigated using some platform tools. Continue reading As Zoom Booms Incidents of ‘ZoomBombing’ Become a Growing Nuisance
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Blackmailers are threatening to infect your family with Coronavirus, trolls are making Zoom an unsafe place for those of a sensitive disposition, and what is the mysterious Dr Negrin audio message spreading on WhatsApp?
All this and much more is discus… Continue reading Smashing Security #171: WhatsApp hoaxes, Zoombombs, and 8-bit love
Trolls have been joining videoconferencing calls to expose meeting participants to disturbing videos. Continue reading Trolls ZoomBomb work-from-home videocall with filth
You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to stay in touch while staying productive are forced to juggle tabs. Meanwhile, call participants often look and sound far away, dwarfed by their background and drowned in […] Continue reading Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app
Box has joined a number of tech companies supporting employees to work remotely from home in response the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. It’s applying the policy to all staff, regardless of location. Late yesterday Box co-founder Aaron Levie tweeted a statement detailing the cloud computing company’s response to COVID-19 — to, as […] Continue reading Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, a post from Sequoia Capital sounding the alarm of the coronavirus’s impact on businesses is reaching far corners of tech communities around the world, […] Continue reading China Roundup: Enterprise tech gets a lasting boost from coronavirus outbreak
In the old days of enterprise software, when companies like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft ruled the roost, there was a tendency to shop from a single vendor. You bought the whole stack, which made life easier for IT — even if it didn’t always work out so well for end users, who were stuck using […] Continue reading Good news for enterprise startups: SaaS helped kill the single-vendor stack
Maya Horowitz with Check Point Research discussed recently-disclosed Zoom vulnerabilities that could have opened up web conferencing meetings to hackers. Continue reading Video: Zoom Researcher Details Web Conference Security Risks, 2020 Threats
Corporate conferencing software provider Zoom patched a security flaw that could have enabled hackers to spy on private meetings, the company says. Check Point Software Technologies, the Israel-based security vendor, said Tuesday it uncovered the security vulnerability last year and alerted Zoom, which fixed the issue in an August software update. Attackers could have exploited the bug by creating a list of nine, 10 or 11-digit meeting identification numbers, then enter any meeting in those sessions that wasn’t protected by a password. If a user had failed to require a password to their conference, the meeting ID number would have been the only thing safeguarding the conversation from eavesdroppers, Check Point said. In response, Zoom updated its policies to add password to all scheduled meetings by default, make it more difficult for attackers to view meetings they might try to infiltrate and block devices that repeatedly scan for meeting IDs. […]
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