Security issues surrounding Zoom not serious, says CEO

The issues were acknowledged by Zoom’s CEO, Eric Yuan, in the company’s blog , and the US-based company has since been taking all the necessary measures to overcome them.

Yuan, said the company had “fallen short” of necessary standards and ill-prepared to deal with the sudden influx in users due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has forced millions of people to work from home. However, in March this year, the company reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants, both free and paid.

“Most the of the concerns have been addressed and the remaining questions about how Zoom uses encryption are not likely to impact users who are not doing highly confidential work,” said the company’s principal research scientist, Chester Wisniewski. “This is where the largest risk lies. Users should change their Zoom settings to avoid unauthorised people from joining their meetings, and not downloading or clicking links from unverified parties,” he said.“For example the real Zoom website is Zoom.us, but people have registered things like ZoomMeetings.com and Z00M.com with zero’s instead of the letter O.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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