Zoom said it would not develop any tool with which law enforcement could decrypt meeting content, nor would it build any cryptographic backdoors to allow for the secret monitoring of meetings. Taking aim at continued Zoombombings, the company said it would be addressing the issue by enhancing attendee-reporting mechanisms available to meeting hosts and using automated tools to look for evidence of abusive users. "Once we have assessed this feedback for integration into a final design, we will announce our engineering milestones and goals for deploying to Zoom users." "We will then host discussion sections with civil society, cryptographic experts, and customers to share more details and solicit feedback," the company said in the post.
In the post, Zoom also said it would publish a detailed draft of its new cryptographic design on May 22. While Zoom's recent 5.0 release supports encrypting content to up to industry-standard AES-265, the post said the company will offer an end-to-end encrypted meeting mode to all paid accounts in the future. Keybase co-founder Max Krohn will lead Zoom's security engineering team, reporting directly to Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan. Zoom said Keybase will provide important contributions to Zoom's 90-day plan to enhance security and privacy capabilities on the platform. Zoom buys security company, aims for end-to-end encryptionĪiming to achieve end-to-end encryption at a wider scale, Zoom said in a Thursday blog post that it acquired secure messaging and file-sharing service Keybase. Zoom reached an agreement with the office following a Wednesday move by the New York City Department of Education, which lifted its ban on Zoom use for educators as it approved the software's new security features.Īn investigation into Zoom by the Connecticut attorney general is still ongoing, as is a lawsuit against the company by investors and shareholders who accuse Zoom of failing to disclose security flaws. New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has closed its inquiry into Zoom's security practice, CNBC reported Thursday. May 7 New York Attorney General closes inquiry into Zoom Read more: Using Zoom for work? Here are the privacy risks to watch out for We'll continue updating this story as more issues and fixes come to light.
If you aren't familiar with Zoom's security issues, you can start from the bottom and work your way up to the most recent information. Here's everything we know about the Zoom security saga, and when it happened.
From built-in attention-tracking features to recent upticks in " Zoombombing" (in which uninvited attendees break in and disrupt meetings, often with hate-filled or pornographic content), the company's security practices have been drawing more attention - along with at least three lawsuits. With that popularity came Zoom's privacy risks extending rapidly to massive numbers of people. As the coronavirus pandemic forced millions of people to stay home over the past two months, Zoom suddenly became the video meeting service of choice: Daily meeting participants on the platform surged from 10 million in December to 200 million in March, and 300 million daily meeting participants in April.
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