<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Have you used the popular Zoom platform for videoconferencing or screen sharing? We primarily don't, but recent security flaws uncovered on Zoom lead us to suggest that you uninstall it (instructions courtesy of <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/zoom-webcam-hacker-watching-you-vulnerability">BuzzFeed</a>). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Further reading: <a href="https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5">https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5</a><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><h2 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.7rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.2;font-family:Basier,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">What to Do About It</font></h2></div></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.7rem;padding:0px;font-family:Pensum,"Times New Roman",times,serif"><font size="4">Go to Zoom settings > Video, and under Meetings, enable “Turn off my video when joining a meeting.”</font></p></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.7rem;padding:0px;font-family:Pensum,"Times New Roman",times,serif"><font size="4">OR</font></p></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.7rem;padding:0px;font-family:Pensum,"Times New Roman",times,serif"><font size="4">Get rid of the Zoom desktop app entirely. If you want to get ahead of Zoom’s patch, which the company said will be released by midnight tonight, first you need to shut down the web server. Open the application called Terminal. Copy and paste this text: lsof -i :19421. Press enter. You’ll get a string of mumbo jumbo. Underneath the text “PID,” copy the string of numbers. Then type “kill -9” (without the quotes), add a space after -9, and paste the PID string of numbers. Press enter. The server has been killed.</font></p></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.7rem;padding:0px;font-family:Pensum,"Times New Roman",times,serif"><font size="4">Drag the Zoom app, along with a folder titled “.zoomus,” to the trash can. Then hover over the trash can, and press CONTROL and click your mouse simultaneously. Empty the trash can. Boom.</font></p></div></blockquote>
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