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2020-04-10 Cyber
German FM restricts Zoom use due to security concerns, Zoom hires Google security chief
[IsraelTimes] Germany’s foreign ministry has restricted use the Zoom, telling employees in an internal memo that security and data protection weaknesses make the conference call service too risky for use, Rooters reports.

Zoom hires ex-Facebook security chief as Google bans app

[Jpost] Zoom Video Communications Inc has tapped former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser as safety and privacy concerns about its fast-growing video-conferencing app drive a global backlash against the company.

That backlash includes a move on Wednesday by Alphabet Inc's Google to ban the desktop version of Zoom from corporate laptops.

In a stark illustration of Zoom's security issues, officials at Berkeley High School in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, said they suspended use of the app after a "naked adult male using racial slurs" intruded on what the school said was a password-protected meeting on Zoom, according to a letter to parents seen by Rooters.

Taiwan and Germany have already put restrictions on Zoom's use, while Elon Musk's SpaceX has banned the app over security concerns. The company also faces a class-action lawsuit.

A Berkeley school district spokeswoman said it was possible a password had been shared, allowing the intrusion. But she added that the entire district was putting Zoom on pause for at least "a few days" to consider how to use and train for video-conferencing.

Coronavirus lockdowns have driven a surge in Zoom usage, even as concerns have grown over its lack of end-to-end encryption of meeting sessions, routing of traffic through China and "zoombombing," when uninvited guests crash meetings.

Zoom shares were up 3.8% in late trade on Wednesday after shedding a third in value over the previous 10 days.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-10 00:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 Oops. ZOOM -> boom. Can I short it?
Posted by Lex 2020-04-10 00:19||   2020-04-10 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Hiring a Googlegoon to run your security/privacy initiative...priceless.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-10 04:37||   2020-04-10 04:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Not the Bee?
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-04-10 09:15||   2020-04-10 09:15|| Front Page Top

#4 All this time, Google thought they were someone. Well, the truth is gonna hurt, google.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-10 09:31||   2020-04-10 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Google going after privacy is priceless. Especially considering how far China is up their arse.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-10 09:44||   2020-04-10 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Google : Privacy is like...
...MSFT : Openness
...CCP : Democracy
...NYT-CNN-MSDNC : Objectivity
...Hollywood : Culture
...Sanders : Free Enterprise
...Pelosi-Schiff : Due Process
...
Posted by Lex 2020-04-10 12:42||   2020-04-10 12:42|| Front Page Top

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