The IT Nerd

From the “what a hypocrite” department comes a leaked all hands meeting with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said this: “Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it’s really hard,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told workers during an August 3rd meeting. “We cannot have a great conversation. We […]

There was a scary Zoom vulnerability that you might want to pay attention to: In June 2023, a vulnerability in Zoom Rooms was discovered. This vulnerability had the potential to allow an attacker to claim a Zoom Room’s service account and gain access to the victim’s organization’s tenant. As a service account, an attacker would have invisible […]

Zoom has announced an AI companion which bills itself as Zoom’s generative AI product. From the press release: AI Companion reinforces Zoom’s vision to deliver limitless human connection on one platform, empowering people by increasing their productivity, enhancing their skills, and improving team effectiveness. Zoom also announced today that Zoom IQ for Sales, its conversational […]

I updated to macOS Sonoma recently and so far so good. Except for this pop up that would appear when I am using Zoom: From an Apple perspective, I know what is happening. In macOS Sonoma, Apple made a bunch of changes to make sure that apps aren’t accessing things they shouldn’t, of doing things […]

Something that blew up in the world yesterday is an accusation that Zoom is using customer data to train its AI with no option to opt out. This Tweet (or X? seeing as Twitter is now X) is an example of this:  To verify that accusation, I went looking for their terms of service and […]

Since the start of the pandemic, Zoom has exploded in popularity as a means to communicate. But threat actors are latching onto that to advance their goals. Take this email for example: It looks well crafted and seems like something that could come from Zoom. But look closer and you’ll see that it isn’t from […]