Security News > 2020 > April > Zoom Taps Ex-Facebook CISO Amid Security Snafus, Lawsuit

As it faces a major lawsuit, Zoom is taking a significant step to bolster security and privacy efforts by recruiting an industry heavy-hitter - former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos - to provide special counsel.

Zoom now says that it aims to clean up its issues from both the product side and by taking a high-level executive approach, Zoom founder Eric Yaun said in a blog post published Wednesday.

The high-level approach that Stamos refers to includes recruiting Stamos, formerly of Facebook and of Yahoo before that, as an outside advisor to assist with a comprehensive security review of Zoom.

In addition to bringing in experts to help sort out its myriad issues, the company also recently made a key tweak to its Zoom client to mitigate the most popular attacks by threat actors that have surfaced during the surge in use: "Bombing" Zoom meetings with porn, hate speech and other disruptive tactics.

Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX recently banned its employees from using Zoom, due to "Significant privacy and security concerns." And, Taiwan has issued a parliamentary order telling government agencies, and some private entities, that "Underlying video software to be used should not have associated security or privacy concerns, such as the Zoom video communication service."

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https://threatpost.com/zoom-facebook-ciso-security-lawsuit/154614/