Zoom is fixing its bugs
Zoom is a video calling app that many users were using to hold video conferences, presentations, and hold business meetings. The Houseparty could be considered for companies in the time of confinement in which we find ourselves.
As soon as the confinement or quarantine period caused by the Coronavirus COVID19 began, it became one of the most downloaded apps. But, as we told you, this put him in the spotlight.For this reason, numerous security and privacy problems appeared, among them, that the app shared user data, without their consent, with Facebook
Zoom is fixing the majority of bugs and vulnerabilities present in its platform:
In another of the app's bugs, users outside the conversation and videoconference could access it. This meant that they could see everything that happened. They could even share unwanted images and videos. In addition, there were also vulnerabilities in logins.
After all this commotion caused by what is being one of the most downloaded apps in this confinement, with the increase in users that this implies, from the Zoom application they have decided to take measures to solve their security and privacy bugs.
Some of the functions of the app
The first thing they did was eliminate different SDK or Development Kits that were in the app. Among them is the one that made the app share, automatically, without the consent of the users, their data with Facebook.
The vulnerability involving logins has also been fixed. And, to focus on the proper functioning of the current features and functions, they have frozen, for three months, the inclusion of new functions and features.
Have you used this app to telework? In that case, what do you think of these measures? They will certainly be well received as they improve the platform, but they may have been late. Even more so knowing that many companies have banned its use.
