Sorry, I can’t give you a link because this was in a news email that Schwab sent me. It’s just the first three paragraphs of a much longer news piece.
I said, no more just arguing back and forth, but new news was okay. This IS new news.
Saul
WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Video conferencing company Zoom has been responsive to concerns over its software, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a memo recently distributed to top government cybersecurity officials and seen by Reuters.
The memo - drafted by DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which screens software used by government bodies - sounded a positive note about the teleworking solution, which has been beset by security worries since the coronavirus outbreak drew in a flood of new stay-at-home users.
DHS and FedRAMP said Zoom Video Communication Inc. was responding to the criticisms and understood how serious they were - a contrast with the formal advice against using the product issued on Tuesday by Taiwan’s Cabinet…
But, if they have a version in which the issues are solved, then it isn’t as if they have to do any new solving to make such features available in other versions.
I know we want to move on from the topic but in the spirit of new news I thought I would add this as it seems to be one of topics still under concern and this information below has not been seen in the threads so far (to my knowledge).
China servers.
Zoom explains that they had to greatly expand their China servers in February. China servers are normally geo-fenced for all non-China traffic. Somebody didn’t turn the geofencing on for the new hardware. Very limited traffic passed to here from sometime in February through April 1.
As of April 2 China has been geo-fenced again.
Importantly: -Upon learning of the oversight yesterday, we immediately took the mainland China datacenters off of the whitelist of secondary backup bridges for users outside of China. -This situation had no impact on our Zoom for Government cloud, which is a separate environment available for our government customers and any others who request the specifications of that environment. -Zoom has layered safeguards, robust cybersecurity protection, and internal controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to data, including by Zoom employees — regardless of how and where the data gets routed.
Why Yuan didn’t hammer that out to Cramer I don’t know.