Not surprisingly, rivals such as Microsoft, Google and Cisco have attempted to capitalize on Zoom’s travails by highlighting the security of their own video platforms.
It has also faced criticism for overstating its end-to-end encryption features, and subsequently apologized for “confusion” around its definition of the technology. Zoom has come under fire in recent months, as use surged in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, highlighting a number of security and privacy weaknesses. “Keybase’s experienced team will be a critical part of this mission.” “Our goal is to provide the most privacy possible for every use case, while also balancing the needs of our users and our commitment to preventing harmful behavior on our platform,” Yuan wrote. The purchase marks a key step for Zoom as it aims to create a “truly private” video communications platform “that can scale to hundreds of millions of participants,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in a blog post. Krohn’s new role was first detailed by CNBC. Keybase’s cofounder Max Krohn will now head up Zoom’s security team, Zoom said. Launched in 2014, Keybase lets users encrypt social media messages and shared files with public key encryption to ensure that communications stay private. The acquisition will give Zoom access to Keybase’s encryption technology, used to secure online identities, as well as its team of engineers.
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This is a type of prank where, despite no invite, strangers were able to enter a private video conference and shout out the details of the attendees, such as names and full addresses.Zoom has acquired secure messaging and identity management firm Keybase as its looks to shore up security capabilities on its platform with end-to-end encryption. The video conferencing platform has stated that it housed all access to its clients' data in the US.Īround the same time, hackers also started to exploit security flaws in the platform in what was called “Zoom-bombing”. According to US authorities, because one Zoom data center was located in China this gave Chinese spies the ability to hack US data. Zoom has even faced accusations that its platform left users vulnerable to foreign spies. “Zoom does not and will not proactively monitor meeting contents, but our trust and safety team will continue to use automated tools to look for evidence of abusive users based upon other available data.” Security flawsĪ report issued to law enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Mission and Counterintelligence Mission centers argued that Zoom was vulnerable to intrusions, according to ABC News. “We will continue to work with users to enhance the reporting mechanisms available to meeting hosts to report unwanted and disruptive attendees. He said: “Our team is passionate about security and privacy, and it is an honor to be able to bring our encryption expertise to a platform used by hundreds of millions of participants a day.”Īs members of Zoom’s security engineering group, the Keybase team will help its new employer achieve its "90-day plan" to identify and fix any security flaws.Ī statement on the company's website read: “As we do this work to further protect our users’ privacy, we are also cognizant of our desire to prevent the use of Zoom’s products to cause harm.
Max Krohn, a Keybase.io co-founder, and developer, will be heading Zoom's security engineering team. Keybase brings deep encryption and security expertise to Zoom, and we’re thrilled to welcome Max and his team." “The first step is getting the right team together. This is what Zoom plans to build, giving our users security, ease of use, and scale, all at once. We believe that no current platform offers all of these. There are communications platforms with easily deployable security and there are enterprise-scale communications platforms. Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom said: “There are end-to-end encrypted communications platforms.
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