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The Indian government is the latest to come out against ‘unsafe’ Zoom
Source: Zoom What you need to know The Indian government has issued an advisory to its employees, declaring the app 'unsafe.'Another government report also warned of significant weakness in the app that made it vulnerable to cyber-attacks.This follows similar moves by...
Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox
Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them. From a report: One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking...
Google Promises to Respect Privacy as It Dives into Healthcare Business
Eric Risberg/AP Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the tech giant is setting its sights on the healthcare business and promised to respect patient privacy. Reuters reports that speaking at the...
Bank Chief Tells Employees: Stay Off Zoom, Google Hangouts
LEON NEAL/AFP 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. Reuters reports that Standard...
ProtonMail could use Google’s infrastructure to circumvent censorship
ProtonMailImage Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat **This article was updated on March 16, 2020, to reflect additional input from Proton, which told VentureBeat that it would only use Google’s infrastructure in very limited situations — and that it won’t be...
Will Capital One’s 106M Name Data Breach Cut Into AWS’s Growth?
Should you own Amazon stock? It would certainly be a better investment if its most profitable business, AWS, was growing faster. And the odds of that happening would be better if the industry in which it competes — cloud services — was accelerating. But news that...