Security Tips for Zoom Application
Many of us have heard about ZOOM Application threats and hackings happened during the covid breakout time. Many organizations, institutions started their day to day meetings, classes through ZOOM application.
Zoom a social video conferencing app just spiked its popularity in use during the Covid Pandemic Days. It have added many users in 2020 than 2019. It have added around 2.22 M users in 2020.
Many Corporate people, Office people, Students engaged in ZOOM during the period.
However all of a sudden it brings everyone's eye catch in to one thing i.e.
"Security Issue".
Issues raised due to its Data and Privacy issue. It has control over your profile, data and system or mobile screen. So you don't know what is going back end.
That Means I am showing you one movie; and I am browsing your files behind the screen. Like this what we can understand. I can take your files and you can not know even.
As per researchers findings, what it has collected;
- Multiple Usernames
- passwords
- Home Address
- Email Address
- Social network profiles
- Mobile number
- IP address
What other issues came?
- Hijacking the session by hackers/strangers.
- Playing pornographic content during middle of the conference.
- Cracking passwords.
- Using third party trackers and surveillance.
- It provided link encryption. Not purely encryption.
- Many zoom conference video files came to market on internet.
- Free version does not supports end to end encryption.
After getting many complaints, zoom has changed its security configurations, patched its application. Still some are under development. The application is stable as on date of writing this blog.
So we can use the video conference apps with caution.
-DR
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