Meanwhile, Zoom's competitors - like Microsoft and Google - have taken the opportunity to boast their own security features, playing themselves up as more safety-savvy alternatives to the video conferencing giant.

Reports show hackers have been using dark Web forums to sell zero day exploits for Zoom and other online communications companies, as the black market for such hacking takes off.

A security researcher revealed how a Zoom bug could allow hackers to deploy password stealing malware for Microsoft users.Zoom subsequently apologized for this oversight. The company was found to be routing traffic through China, which has raised questions about privacy, given the country's heavy surveillance of Internet activity.Zoom had previously claimed to provide E2EE across the board for all their services, but apparently revealed to The Intercept that video calls do not support this level of security. A lack of end-to-end encryption for video calls.This scrutiny over Zoom has also led to the discovery of a number of security holes that the company has promised to fix. The New York Attorney General recently launched an investigation into the company's practices. Senators, are being diverted to other applications for the time being. Other governments, meanwhile, have adjusted to the disruptions by shifting policies, sometimes cutting out or reducing public comment sections during meetings, or in other cases simply canceling non-critical meetings altogether.Īs the number of incidents has grown, pretty much everybody - from Google employees, to U.S. New York City's Department of Education also recently banned Zoom use for remote teaching for schools throughout the city. This has naturally worried governments across the country, with some school districts in Utah, California and Washington state either banning or limiting the use of the platform. Governments in many other states, including Vermont, have reported similar problems. California school board and city council meetings in Conejo Valley and Lafayette recently suffered through disruptions.A recent Zoom call with Utah elementary school students was apparently derailed when hackers managed to insert pornography into the call.During a city meeting in Kalamazoo, Mich., hackers trolled commission members with slur-laden profanity.So far, those hacks have been characterized mostly by simple 'troll'-like behavior. Nevertheless, the primary target for much of this disruption has been Zoom, which, as a major player in the video conferencing industry since 2011, quickly garnered a flood of new membership this year, before a run of hacks dampened that enthusiasm.

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