Zoom reaches 300 million daily users despite security incidents

Zoom's recent security incidents have been worrying many users, however, the popularity of the videoconferencing platform continues to grow exponentially. Since the beginning of April, the number of daily users has grown from 200 million to 300 million, said Eric Yuan, the company's CEO, during a webinar.

In the face of successive security problems on the platform, the company announced a new version of the software with a greater emphasis on privacy. According to an official blog post, Zoom 5.0 features AES 256-bit GCM encryption to protect users.

The new version of Zoom also allows users to have more control over the security settings of meetings, being able to protect them with passwords and virtual waiting rooms. In addition, in Zoom 5.0 it is possible to report Zoombombing incidents immediately.

The practice of Zoombombing has become more and more frequent, even preventing the normal operation of distance classes in Portugal and leading Fenprof to make a complaint to the Attorney General's Office. The Judicial Police managed to identify the person responsible for the disruptions and erased all content about the incidents that were published on the Internet.

In the United States, similar accidents occur in which Internet Trolls enter virtual meetings on the platform and wreak havoc. In early April, the FBI reported numerous complaints from users whose conferences at Zoom were interrupted by pornographic and hateful images in hateful language.

Members of extremist anti-Semitic groups have used the technique to attack numerous Jewish religious services online. The North American station WABC-TV said that a Jewish congregation meeting in New York was interrupted by an attacker who published offensive images and suspicions. CBS News reported the case of a question and answer session with a Rabbi in which several Zoombombers began to threaten participants and to make references to the Holocaust.

It should be recalled that in a recent CNN interview, Eric Yuan made a big mistake regarding security incidents, admitting that Zoom was initially designed for organizations and companies. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we are moving too quickly, said the CEO.