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Reports emerged earlier this week that the Minneapolis police department had been breached by hacktivist group Anonymous. Security expert Troy Hunt debunked the reports, however.
Security experts are up in arms after learning that video conferencing app Zoom will only offer end-to-end encryption to paid users. On Zoom's Wednesday first-quarter financial earnings call, Zoom CEO Eric Yuang said that the upcoming end-to-end encryption feature would not apply for free users.
As Zoom continues on its path to bring end-to-end encryption to users, the big news is that only paid users will have access to the option. "Free users for sure we don't want to give that because we also want to work together with FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose," Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said on a company earnings call on Tuesday.
Zoom's chief executive revealed on Tuesday that free users will not be offered end-to-end encryption as the company wants to assist the FBI and local law enforcement in their investigations. Zoom has promised to take action and it has already started implementing measures that would help it address security and privacy concerns.
Schools, paying customers and potentially high-risk users could be offered stronger encryption for video meetings under new plans being explored by Zoom. Zoom is reported to be planning to strengthen its encryption for paying customers and other institutions such as schools.
Make room, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram and all you other end-to-end encrypted messaging services - Google's getting closer to elbowing its way onto the stage with its Google Messages. The RCS protocol - popularly known as Chat - is the successor to SMS messaging and does what most other texting services do, but without the end-to-end encryption of apps like Signal, et al.
Zoom meetings currently offer encryption but with certain limitations. Encryption is used to protect the identity of users, call data between Zoom clients and Zoom's infrastructure, and meeting contents.
While encryption can come in many forms, it always comes with the same goal: protecting data confidentiality. End-to-end encryption achieves that goal by setting up an encrypted channel where only the client applications themselves have access to the decryption keys.
Find out how G Suite and Google Meet help employees and students work and study at home, and why encryption is key.
Find out how G Suite and Google Meet help employees and students work and study at home, and why encryption is key. CBS News and CNET Senior Producer Dan Patterson talked with Philip Moyer, VP of Industries for Google Cloud, about G Suite and Google Meet has helped people and students work from home, safely, amid the coronavirus quarantine.