{"id":23979,"date":"2020-04-22T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23979"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:21:52","slug":"zoom-steps-up-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23979","title":{"rendered":"ZOOM STEPS UP SECURITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video conferencing service Zoom rolled out an update Wednesday to enhance the security of its teleconferencing app and make it easier to block intruders.<\/p>\n<p>The Zoom 5.0 version of the app will release within the week and will include upgraded encryption features, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom has exploded in popularity as the coronavirus pandemic confines people to their homes. The platform reported 200 million daily users in March, a big leap from 10 million in December.<\/p>\n<p>But it has faced a backlash over a multitude of security and privacy issues, including vulnerabilities that have led to uninvited guests being able to access and disrupt meetings through \u201cZoom-bombings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The updates announced Wednesday largely focus on addressing that vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video conferencing service Zoom rolled out&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23980,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}