In these days of the COVID-19 pandemic & work from home atmosphere, one video conferencing platform that has achieved sudden popularity is Zoom. But there are allegations of vulnerabilities in the platform which can be exploited by hackers.
Zoom as, however, said, it was tackling the system weakness problems & has issued a patch, too. Here’s how to use Zoom.
How to host a Zoom meeting – TechRepublic
Working from home doesn’t mean you can’t meet with coworkers. Zoom is one of the ways you can stay in touch while apart. Countless people are now working from home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but social distancing doesn’t mean work still can’t get done. Zoom is one such way to meet with your coworkers while separated, and it’s available for free to anyone who needs an account.
Link: How to host a Zoom meeting
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Update: Zoom issues fix for UNC vulnerability that lets hackers steal Windows credentials via chat – PCworld
Update: After this story and others went live April 1, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan addressed Zoom security and other issues in a blog post. Part of the blog post detailed a bug fix to be released, which would fix the UNC vulnerability described in our original story, among other things. The fix appears to be pushing out automatically to users. PCWorld staff who’ve already received the fix report the version number as 4.6.9 (19253.0401).
An unpatched vulnerability within Zoom allows an attacker to drop a malicious link into a chat window and use it to steal a Windows password, according to reports.
via: PCWorld
