Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science teamed up with Boston University Assistant Professor Gianluca Stringhini and PhD student Chen Ling to analyze more than 200 calls from the first seven months of 2020. On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram.Assistant Professor Jeremy Blackburn and PhD student Utkucan Balcı from the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton’s Thomas J. The company has also hired Facebook's ex-security chief Alex Stamos as a consultant.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us Zoom's updates will likely keep coming in as the company continues to address these issues. This happened to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson who took a screenshot of his remote Zoom meeting and ended up exposing the meeting ID of a sensitive government call. Keeping the meeting ID private is essential as it protects all the people on the meeting from unwanted attendees dropping in on the discussions. The update also removes Meeting IDs from being displayed to all the members in the video call.

Features like Waiting Rooms and Meeting Passwords are switched on by default.Īlso read: Zoom privacy, security issue: A timeline The application gets 'Security' icon that lets hosts and co-hosts access functions like Lock the meeting, Enable the Waiting Room, Remove participants and more at one place. This means that users who manually join a meeting by entering the meeting ID will have to enter the password as well.

The company also rolled out two password settings where one requires a password for Personal Meeting ID (PMI), and the other requires a password for meetings which have already been scheduled.

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