A recent vulnerability was located last month regarding the popular video conferencing application known as Zoom. This is a application used by many for business and personal conversation throughout the world.
The issues is, when someone sends a request to another for a video conference the application does not require the user to agree to the conference call. Once the call is sent the recipients web camera is automatically turned on. Anyone with the application downloaded to their computer can remove the app, but this will not remove the web server on your machine.
This is dangerous for anyone who has downloaded the application as any other user could potentially send a conference request and view what you are doing or saying in front of your computer. Thinking of this from a business protective, the phone calls and conversations discussed in front of a computer, could possibly give away trade secrets, company information, and personal information.
While the company Zoom works to provide an update, users can disable the video setting for conference calls. Which would still allow a hacker to listen in to your conversations.
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