{"id":978,"date":"2020-05-07T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:09:49","slug":"zooms-5-0-update-improves-encryption-adds-meeting-security-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/zooms-5-0-update-improves-encryption-adds-meeting-security-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom\u2019s 5.0 Update Improves Encryption, Adds Meeting Security Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the COVID-19 virus spread across the globe, the business landscape was forced to make a number of swift changes. Almost overnight, the video conferencing app Zoom becomes the go-to option to hold lessons, business meetings, and sensitive discussions. The surge in popularity, the firm was also bombarded for issues related to its privacy and security flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom has announced a host of security enhancements with its 5.0 update. The new version comes with AES 256-bit GCM encryption standard, which increases protection for meeting data and improvements in protection against hacking. Although this is not the end-to-end encryption that Zoom erroneously said it had implemented, but it\u2019s an improvement for the transmission of meeting data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come with this new update is also a security icon that groups together a number of Zoom\u2019s security features. You can use it to quickly lock meetings, remove participants, and restrict screen sharing and chatting in meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/docs\/en-us\/zoom-v5-0.html\">here<\/a>&nbsp;to update to Zoom 5.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2020\/04\/22\/zooms-5-0-update-helps-stop-zoombombing-and-improves-encryption\/\">www.thenextweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the COVID-19 virus spread across the globe, the business landscape was forced to make a number of swift changes. Almost overnight, the video conferencing app Zoom becomes the go-to option to hold lessons, business meetings, and sensitive discussions. The surge in popularity, the firm was also bombarded for issues related to its privacy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}