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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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Check Point Software Technologies today revealed that it discovered a cybersecurity flaw that potentially allowed cybersecurity criminals to eavesdrop on video calls provided by Zoom. Yaniv Balmas, head of Cyber Security Research for Check Point, said… Continue reading Check Point Reveals Zoom Video Hack
If you use Zoom to host your remote online meetings, you need to read this piece carefully.
The massively popular video conferencing software has patched a security loophole that could have allowed anyone to remotely eavesdrop on unprotected active me… Continue reading Zoom Bug Could Have Let Uninvited People Join Private Meetings
Remote conferencing services provider Zoom patched a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to find and join active meetings. Check Point explained that the issue stemmed from the way in which Zoom secured certain meetings: If you use Zoom, … Continue reading Zoom Bug Potentially Allowed Attackers to Find and Join Active Meetings
Zoom has patched a flaw that could have allowed attackers to guess a meeting ID and enter a meeting. Continue reading Zoom Fixes Flaw Opening Meetings to Hackers
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According to Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, 80% of the product’s users rely on it, at least partially, for work. It makes sense, then, that the company is refocusing to try and cement its spot in the workplace; to shed its image as “just” a file storage company (in a time when just about every big […] Continue reading Why is Dropbox reinventing itself?
RingCentral and other video conferencing apps share the same flaws as those revealed in Zoom earlier this month, including the ability to hijack users’ webcams without their permission.
Apple pushes out further silent updates to protect users fro… Continue reading Apple pushes out another silent update to address flaws in RingCentral and other video conferencing apps
White-label versions of Zoom come with the same bug as Apple patched last week. Time to patch again.
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