Zoom has been keeping businesses, student bodies, and families connected, especially since coronavirus, and the company's stock has been one of the few that's up from a month ago. But recent reports have called it out for its security weaknesses, incidents of "Zoombombing" of porn, and carelessness of customer information.

From Fast Company:

"If there’s one tech company that got a boost from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s Zoom. The remote communications company has seen its usage soar as millions across the planet have switched to remotely working from home. Matter of fact, as the companies listed on major stock markets saw trillions wiped from their value in recent weeks, Zoom has seen its share price shoot up as much as 134% this year."

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Zoom have today acknowledged security issues whih have only cone to light due the explosive growth in numbers and they are now working on them. The British Governemnt is using them for meetings

‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform
The company has seen a 535% rise in daily traffic in the past month, but security researchers say the app is a ‘privacy disaster’
Kari Paul
Last modified on Thu 2 Apr 2020 21.39 BST

As coronavirus lockdowns have moved many in-person activities online, the use of the video-conferencing platform Zoom has quickly escalated. So, too, have concerns about its security.

In the last month, there was a 535% rise in daily traffic to the Zoom.us download page, according to an analysis from the analytics firm SimilarWeb. Its app for iPhone has been the most downloaded app in the country for weeks, according to the mobile app market research firm Sensor Tower. Even politicians and other high-profile figures, including the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the former US federal reserve chair Alan Greenspan, use it for conferencing as they work from home.

But security researchers have called Zoom “a privacy disaster” and “fundamentally corrupt” as allegations of the company mishandling user data snowball.

On Monday, New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, sent a letter to the company asking it to outline the measures it had taken to address security concerns and accommodate the rise in users.

In the letter, James said Zoom had been slow to address security vulnerabilities “that could enable malicious third parties to, among other things, gain surreptitious access to consumer webcams”.
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