In march zoom was downloaded approximately 40 million. 1 app for most of the month on apptopia s app store chart the tracking firm says. Zoom has been the no.
Zoom has other security issues. The company said on thursday it had issued a release to fix the mac issue but the number of security issues with zoom in the past make it as bad as malicious software said arvind narayanan an. Ian thornton trump chief security officer at cyjax says that as more people use the video conferencing app amid the covid 19 crisis security problems are going to be a growing pain issue for zoom.
Zoom has had some glaring problems of privacy and security. The app is headquartered in san jose california and was valued at 16bn when it went public in 2019. This issue could be resolved though as the application should have virtual meeting rooms in which the host of a meeting has to.
Is the app safe to use. Zoom security and hacking issues 2020. The issue is now fixed.
As the blog highlights shunning the app helps you avoid security issues such as the flaw in the mac zoom app that allowed hackers to take over your camera and microphone. The company has also turned on common sense features such as password protecting meetings by default to prevent zoombombing. Zoom says it has patched out many of the security flaws.
Zoom has been criticised for a range of privacy issues including sending user data to facebook wrongly claiming the app had end to end encryption and allowing meeting hosts to track attendees. Here s a timeline of every security issue uncovered in the video chat app. Zoom buys security company aims for end to end encryption.
An attacker could have sent malware in the form of a compressed file to a user via zoom meeting chat and the user s zoom client would have saved and opened the malware within the zoom application.
