Argentine lawmaker Juan Emilio Ameri, a member of the governing Peronist Party, was attending a Zoom meeting of legislators on Thursday when the other participants noticed he was fondling a buxom blonde woman on camera.
This week, YouTube and Zoom pulled the plug on a livestream event hosted by San Francisco State University featuring Leila Khaled, an activist that is best known for her participation in two airplane hijackings that took place in the 1970s. SFSU President Lynn Mahoney argued that that Zoom’s decision to “silence” Khaled is “deeply wounding” to members of the university community.
Former Vice President Joe Biden wore a mask for a remote interview with a local Wisconsin ABC affiliate on Monday, for reasons that remain unclear.
Video-conferencing app Zoom, which is being relied on by many school districts across the country for online classes, is suffering a massive outage right as many children attempt to begin their first day of classes.
A foster family adopted their second child in a virtual adoption ceremony in the age of the coronavirus.
Video-conferencing app Zoom, notorious for its poor security, ties to Communist China, and “Zoom bombing,” is expanding its reach to a number of smart home devices from Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
The bail hearing of a teen accused of masterminding the recent Twitter hack was “zoom bombed” by porn videos and other intrusions.
Chinese state media continued its frenzied response to the prospective U.S. ban on TikTok with editorials slamming the Trump administration for “robbery” and a “flagrant heist” because the app can only survive in the U.S. if Microsoft agrees to purchase it.
George Orwell’s 1984 has truly arrived. Look no further than the disturbing story about Marymount Manhattan College Professor Patricia Simon, who attended an “anti-racist meeting” via Zoom and is now being swarmed by fascists over her apparent lack of enthusiasm.
The 2020 election just became about China — in a big way. And the result could determine whether the United States prevails, or fails, in the fight to protect our freedom.
U.S. based video conferencing app Zoom is reportedly adding a new feature to its app that will help Beijing target Chinese users. Despite making censorship even easier for the communist regime, the company released a statement stating, “We hope that one day, governments who build barriers to disconnect their people from the world and each other will recognize that they are acting against their own interests, as well as the rights of their citizens and all humanity.”
Zoom, the video conferencing app that has ballooned in popularity during the Chinese virus lockdown, has admitted that it deactivated the accounts of pro-democracy Chinese activists living in America at the request of the Chinese government.
Video conferencing app Zoom suspended the account of a U.S.-based Chinese activist group after the group hosted a Zoom event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, stating that it did so “to comply with local law.” Following media coverage and outrage from the public, Zoom reenabled the group’s account on the platform.
New York Yankees players Mike Ford and David Hale are giving online baseball lessons to kids who are unable to attend baseball camp.
A recent report states that a man from Long Island’s Amityville village in New York City was stabbed to death by his son while chatting with friends via the video conferencing app Zoom.
A man in Singapore has been sentenced to death via a Zoom call as the country remains on lockdown because of the coronavirus.
Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Colorado argued recently in a press release that it is offensive to use a wedding or family photo as a background during a video conference. The pair argues that such photos “reinforce dominant social norms and identities.”
Oklahoma City University’s virtual graduation ceremony was interrupted over the weekend by a hacker that replaced the broadcast with racist images. “Zoom bombing,” a term which was popularized at the outset of the Chinese virus pandemic, is an unwanted disruption to a Zoom meeting by an intruder who is able to take control of a meeting.
Video-conferencing company Zoom has reportedly struck a deal with New York Attorney General Letitia James this week closing an inquiry into the app’s security problems.
Hackers disrupted a video call among South African lawmakers on Thursday with pornographic content and racial abuse against the meeting’s chairwoman.
Retired Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, the former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump, has joined the board of Zoom, the video conferencing platform that has been plagued by security issues and concerns about communist China.
Video-conferencing app Zoom has admitted that it doesn’t have 300 million daily active users, as it has previously claimed.
A recent joint report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Mission and Counterintelligence Mission centers alleged that video-conferencing app Zoom could be vulnerable to foreign surveillance.
The far-reaching impact of the coronavirus is forcing many changes in American life, including court proceedings where foster children are adopted. For one Arkansas couple, that means adopting their child over Zoom instead of an in-person court hearing.
Indiana University told professors this week that they are required to report students that appear naked on webcam during online class sessions. Indiana University officials reportedly claimed that accidentally appearing naked during a class session is a form of “sexual harassment.”
According to a recent report, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos are actually getting richer as much of the world is in lockdown due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The combined wealth of the two billionaires has increased by ten percent since January.
Video conferencing service Zoom has reportedly reached 300 million users despite its growing number of security and privacy issues. The company’s userbase has surged 50% in just the last month based on the economy and education system relying on the service.
A recent report states that as the video-conferencing software Zoom has exploded in popularity due to the Chinese virus pandemic, many are finding themselves developing “Zoom fatigue” after constantly communicating via video chat.
Video conferencing software Zoom has faced criticism in recent weeks for its vulnerability to “Zoom bombing” in which people connect to private calls to generally cause mayhem. Here are four key steps you can take to prevent the disruption of meetings whether for work or school.
A recent report from The New York Times reveals that file-hosting service Dropbox privately paid hackers to find bugs in the software of video conferencing firm Zoom and then pressured the company to fix them. It reportedly took more than three months for Zoom to fix one of the security lapses identified by Dropbox.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced over the weekend that he will allow citizens of the state to receive marriage licenses remotely from their own homes during the Chinese virus pandemic — and even be married by video conference.
College fraternities across the country have decided to hold meetings virtually in response to restrictions on gatherings over the deadly Chinese virus pandemic.
According to a recent report, hackers are selling two critical vulnerabilities for the video conferencing software Zoom that could allow people to gain access to private accounts and spy on calls. The price for an exploit that would allow a hacker to take control of a Zoom user’s computer is reportedly $500,000.
Standard Chartered is reportedly the first major global bank to instruct employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app or Google Hangouts during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns.
A recent report claims that the login details for over 500,000 Zoom accounts have been shared or sold on hacker forums and the dark web.
According to a recent report from Time, U.S. Intel Officials believe that foreign spies are targeting video chatting platforms such as Zoom to spy on business executives, government officials, and scientists using the apps during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Two grandparents, Alvin Lee, 90, and Dorothy Driskell, 85, had planned a big ceremony for their nuptials this spring, but when the coronavirus pandemic hit, the couple got creative and livestreamed their wedding over Zoom.
The U.S. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms has reportedly advised members to cease the use of video conferencing app Zoom following a number of security issues being made public in recent weeks. The New York City Department of Education, Google, and the Taiwanese government have all banned the use of Zoom.
Video conferencing app Zoom has reportedly formed a new security advisory council and implemented new features to prevent “Zoom bombing.”
The Foundation for Individual Right in Education (FIRE) says that it will monitor online college classes to ensure that academic freedom and freedom of expression are protected in virtual classrooms during the Chinese virus pandemic.
