Security News > 2020 > March > Remote work and web conferencing: Security and privacy considerations

As more and more people remain at home and work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them have been forced to use one or many video and audio conferencing applications out of necessity.

One particular remote conferencing solution is quickly becoming the solution of choice for many users worldwide: Zoom.

The popularity is due to how easy it is to use, to the quality of the video and audio connection, and to the fact that a free account gives you unlimited one-to-one meetings and 40 minutes for a group meeting per day, which is more than enough for most people's private use needs.

Though private meetings are much less likely to be interrupted or spied on by malicious individuals, individuals and organizations that use it for bigger online meetings - either for work or after-work socializing and unwinding - must be aware that they could be "Zoombombed."

Others have warned about things like private chats during Zoom meetings ending up in meeting minutes, as well as attention and user tracking.

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