[Faculty] SDSU Zoom Web/Video Conferencing Security Frequently Asked Questions

[Ashkan Ashrafi]

This is what Zoom does not want you to know:


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Popular video-conferencing company Zoom Video Communications (ZM <https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/zm/price-target>) admitted that it had “mistakenly” allowed calls to flow through China, adding to a number of mis-steps raising doubt on the security of the platform.

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Zoom’s statement was triggered by research from Citizen Lab, which found that in some cases, the company’s encryption keys had significant weaknesses.

“During multiple test calls in North America, we observed keys for encrypting and decrypting meetings transmitted to servers in Beijing, China,” the report said warning that the app should not be used by users sharing sensitive and confidential information.

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For more information, please see the following article:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zoom-admits-calls-were-mistakenly-123356776.html

What I don’t understand is that why SDSU is trying convince us that Zoom is safe!

Regards,


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Ashkan Ashrafi, Ph.D., SMIEEE
Associate Professor
Director, Signal Processing Research Laboratory

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr., E-410A
San Diego, CA 92182-1309
Tel: (619)594-3703
Fax: (619)594-2654 
email: ashrafi at mail.sdsu.edu
URL: ashrafi.sdsu.edu




> On Apr 8, 2020, at 8:51 AM, William Nguyen <wnguyen at sdsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> FYI.
> 
> https://it.sdsu.edu/security/protect/zoom_protection.aspx <https://it.sdsu.edu/security/protect/zoom_protection.aspx> 
> 
>  Thank You,
> 
> William Nguyen
> Operating Systems Analyst 
> College of Engineering, ENG-202A
> San Diego State University
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