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Zoom creates information security council, appoints Alex Stamos in advisory role

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After a series of security and privacy mishaps, Zoom has taken further steps to allay fears of its privacy and security, the company announced in a blog post yesterday. To start with, the company has created a Chief Information Security Officers Council (CISO Council) to advise it, with CISOs from HSBC and NTT Data, among others. The company is also tapping a subset of the council to advise Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan personally, with security experts from Netflix, VMware and Uber. The company will also rope in cybersecurity expert and Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos of Stanford University as an external advisor; Stamos has actively tweeted about Zoom's privacy issues. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1245197052314677249 Zoom was banned from government use in Taiwan on 7 April over security concerns, and from schools in New York City one day earlier. On April 1, the company announced a feature freeze (as Stamos suggested above), as scrutiny on it built up as the company grew in size by a factor of 20. Here are Zoom's security issues up until this point, in this year alone. On April 8, Motherboard reported that several hackers are showing interest in so-called "zero-day" exploits, which are vulnerabilities that are not disclosed to anyone. The report says that the hackers are trying to sell these exploits to the highest bidder, which means there could be risks in the app that cannot be patched until the attacks actually happen. The report does not name any of the hackers. On April 3,…

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