How Microsoft messed up

CNBC has created a 15-minute video The Rise and Fall of Skype which explains how the messaging app was ruined by the software king of the world Microsoft.

As does taking top secret documents home with you

Video conferencing participants wearing specs are inadvertently revealing sensitive on-screen information via reflections.

I “blundered the execution”

A boss of a US mortgage company, who fired hundreds of his staff in a Zoom meeting admits that he might have blundered the execution… in much the same way that Henry the VIII did for Thomas Cromwell.

Data flips break EU laws

Hamburg's state government has been formally warned against using Zoom over data protection concerns.

It seemed people went elsewhere

Users of the video conferencing software Zoom, who were presumably working from home, did not seem to be overly concerned when a major outage prevented them from attending online meetings.

Trialing in July

 Zoom Video Communications Inc is planning to offer all its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and will launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said yesterday.

We messed up

Zoom has admitted that it stuffed up when it kowtowed to the Chinese government and cancelled the accounts of human rights activists about to have an online meeting about the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Don't mention Tiananmen Square

Zoom Video Communications is in hot water after it temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of US-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Needs more encryption expertise

Online conferencing app Zoom has announced this morning that it has acquired Keybase, a startup with encryption expertise.

Home working creates new business

Hackers are flogging two critical vulnerabilities for the video conferencing software Zoom that would allow someone to hack users and spy on their calls.