Zoom meeting app is 'not safe' to use: Govt
Friday, April 17, 2020 IST
Issues security configuration for private users, who still want to use it
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Nearly 13 days after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) flagged the privacy issues over a video meeting, the government on Thursday issued an advisory saying the Zoom meeting app is “not a safe” platform for video conference and issued a set of guidelines for the safety of private users, who “still would like to use it”.
In the advisory issued by the Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord), under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), asked the private users to secure privacy before using ZOOM Meeting Platform.
In the advisory, it is also said that the platform is “not for use by government officers/officials for official purposes”.
“The advisory also makes reference to earlier advisories of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) and states that Zoom is not a safe platform. The guidelines have been issued to safeguard private individuals who would still like to use the platform for private purposes,” the MHA said in an official statement.
The broad objective of this advisory is to prevent any unauthorized entry into a Zoom Conference Room and prevent the unauthorized participant to carry out malicious attacks on the terminals of other users in the conference, it added.
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