Zoom closes security holes: Users should now update

This includes so-called “zoom bombing”, in which strangers burst into video conferences. This is possible if the link for the respective conference becomes public and the participants do not end up in the virtual waiting room and are added by the organizer. In the United States alone, several cases became known in which school hours and zoom services were disrupted with insults and the display of Nazi symbols. During school hours on Zoom’s education platform, the participants now come to a waiting room as standard.

Zoom also had to make it clear that, contrary to the earlier presentation of the service, the data is not always transmitted with full encryption, in which it is only accessible to the participants. This only works reliably as long as everyone in a conference is using zoom software. If someone dials in by phone call, the encryption of the service cannot be used there, as is clear from a blog entry. At the same time, Zoom emphasized that no technology had been developed to crack conference encryption for government surveillance.

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