Security News

Zoom Fixes Flaw Opening Meetings to Hackers
2020-01-28 11:00

NEW ORLEANS - Enterprise video conferencing firm Zoom has issued a bevy of security fixes after researchers said the company's platform used weak authentication that made it possible for adversaries to join active meetings. The issue stems from Zoom's conference meetings not requiring a "Meeting password" by default, which is a password assigned to Zoom attendees for what is calls a meeting room.

Zoom Bug Could Have Let Uninvited People Join Private Meetings
2020-01-28 04:01

Besides hosting password-protected virtual meetings and webinars, Zoom also allows users to set up a session for non-pre-registered participants who can join an active meeting by entering a unique Meeting ID, without requiring a password or going through the Waiting Rooms. To circumvent such scenarios, Zoom late last year introduced some additional controls under the password settings for meetings and webinars, which according to Check Point, was the result of research on security loophole the security firm responsibly reported to the company in July 2019.

FLIR Systems launches three new Pan-Tilt-Zoom security cameras
2019-12-26 03:00

FLIR Systems announced three dome-shaped, Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) security cameras, including two dual-sensor camera series for critical infrastructure locations, the FLIR Elara DX-Series and the FLIR...

WebEx, Zoom Meetings Exposed to Snooping via Enumeration Attacks
2019-10-01 14:05

Malicious actors may be able to easily access unprotected Cisco WebEx and Zoom meetings due to an API enumeration vulnerability, Cequence Security’s CQ Prime threat research team revealed on...

Vulnerability in Cisco Webex and Zoom may expose online meetings to snooping
2019-10-01 10:55

Cequence Security’s CQ Prime Threat Research Team discovered of a vulnerability in Cisco Webex and Zoom video conferencing platforms that potentially allows an attacker to enumerate or list and...

Zoom Vulnerability
2019-07-16 17:54

The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer's camera. It's a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact that it remains even if you...

Zoom RCE Flaw Also Affects Its Rebranded Versions RingCentral and Zhumu
2019-07-16 07:18

The same security vulnerabilities that were recently reported in Zoom for macOS also affect two other popular video conferencing software that under the hood, are just a rebranded version of Zoom...

Apple quietly removes Zoom’s hidden web server from Macs
2019-07-15 11:31

In the latest twist in the saga of the web-conferencing app, Apple has issued a ‘silent’ update removing Zoom's hidden web server from Macs.

Zoom Video Conferencing for macOS Also Vulnerable to Critical RCE Flaw
2019-07-13 11:03

The chaos and panic that the disclosure of privacy vulnerability in the highly popular and widely-used Zoom video conferencing software created earlier this week is not over yet. It turns out that...

Mac Zoom Web Server Allows for Remote Code Execution
2019-07-12 15:28

The web server that the Zoom Client installs on Macs can be abused to execute code remotely, security researchers have discovered.  read more