Over the last few months, the world got a crash course in videoconferencing and collaboration technology. With remote work now part of our culture, platforms like Zoom, BlueJeans, Lifesize, Webex, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become a must have for most organizations that typically reported to an office setting. However, Microsoft Teams, which is […]
Zoom is reportedly working on a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed Thursday by a cybersecurity firm. The vulnerability, detected by ACROS Security, affects users running Zoom Client for Windows on older versions of Windows, specifically Windows 7 and older. Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 in January, but there are still many […]
Zoom is introduced a hardware-as-a-service plan that makes deploying Zoom Rooms more accessible by reducing the barriers to entry and high up-front costs. The program, dubbed Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS), gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options for phone and meeting room hardware, the company says […]
Zoom has completed its 90-day plan to address security and transparency issues and is now planning to issue a transparency report that details requests for information and create a framework for how the company responds to requests from governments. In a blog post last week, CEO Eric Yuan detailed the dozens of security and transparency […]
We all know about the security and privacy issues that Zoom and other videoconferencing providers wrestled with at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and how those companies addressed those issues since then. However, a new study from Ben-Gurion University suggests that a combination of image processing, text recognition and forensics allowed them to cross reference […]
Communication device manufacturer Poly is introducing more integrations with Microsoft Teams and its devices, most recently the Studio X30 and X50 video bars. According to a Tuesday press release, the video bars now run Microsoft Teams natively, allowing for seamless out-of-the-box collaboration via Microsoft’s unified communication and collaboration platform. New features include: Proximity join allows […]
Videoconferencing platform Zoom has hired a former Salesforce and Microsoft security expert as its chief information security officer as the company narrows in on the end of a 90-day security improvement plan. Zoom earlier this week announced the hire of Jason Lee, most recently the senior vice president of security operations at Salesforce. Lee, with […]
Zoom reversed course Wednesday, saying that users with free accounts will receiving end-to-end encryption once the enhanced security feature is released. In a blog post, CEO Eric Yuan gave an update on the company’s security and encryption plans that apparently now include end-to-end encryption for free users after recently saying only paid users will have […]
Zoom is working on end-to-end encryption as it hopes to become the first major videoconferencing platform to offer the feature and help keep organizations secure. However, that will start and stop with paid users, CEO Eric Yuan said in an earnings call with investors earlier this month. According to Yuan, the company doesn’t want to […]
Zoom is building technology that can remove or block users based on country after the company shut down Chinese activist accounts after pressure from the Chinese government. Per media reports and Zoom’s own blog, the company shut down accounts belonging to Chinese civil rights groups that were planning to commemorate the 1989 protests in Beijing’s […]
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