A naked man, an application ban and a case ... Zoom hires a Facebook administrator to solve her problems

Snowball is rolling over to the problems of implementing video chats sweeping with it all the procedures and promises to improve the service, the German Foreign Ministry, Google and the US Senate have banned the application and signed a case of bombing Zoom in a school despite the implementation of the new protection measures, all this in addition to the new lawsuit against a group of shareholders.

German government sources said that the German Foreign Ministry banned the use of the Zoom video conferencing service on desktop computers because of concerns about security issues, while allowing it to be used on laptops, and the sources added that secret talks will not take place through it, because they will not be fully encrypted.

The ministry adopted the recommendation, according to the Handelsblatt newspaper, after it concluded that the Zoom program had "critical" vulnerabilities.

Thus, Germany joins Taiwan and Canada, which have banned the application due to information that the data sent through it pass through servers in China.

In addition to countries, the application suffers with companies, as it is Google joins Space Space Commercial Company "SpaceX" in banning the use of the program among its employees.

On Wednesday, Google said it would remove the app from employees ’desktop computers due to security concerns. A Google spokesman said employees can still use Zoom versions on the web.

The Financial Times reported today, Thursday, that the US Senate asked its members not to use Zoom's "video conferencing" application because of data security concerns, while the company was trying to eliminate global criticism against its rapidly growing application.

The Financial Times reported that members of the Senate were asked to find an alternative platform for use in remote work, adding that the Senate had stopped using the Zoom service officially.

Zoom utilization increased after political parties, corporate offices, schools, organizations and millions around the world started working from home, after the closings were imposed to slow the spread of the Corona virus.

However, the massive influx of users on its platform raised concerns that ranged from its lack of comprehensive encryption of meeting sessions, directing traffic across China and "zooming in" which is to storm uninvited people.

New case of Zoom bombing
Officials at Berkeley High School in California said they suspended using the app after a "naked adult man using racist phrases" snooped on what the school said was a password-protected meeting in Zoom, according to a letter to the parents of one of the students, according to Reuters.

Brent Stevens, director of the Berkeley School District, told Reuters that the teacher involved in the Zoom incident had trained on Tuesday security procedures and appeared to have used them. But an impostor managed to reach the waiting room using a pseudonym close enough to the real name to deceive the teacher, who banned the intruder and reported the accident.

Stephens added that the region is now assessing whether a competing product from Google could prevent similar incidents in the future. "Instead of switching from one platform to another, we wanted to stop for a while and not risk the safety of students," he said.

The company's problems did not end there, as shareholders in the company filed a collective lawsuit against the company because of "exaggeration and lack of disclosure of privacy and security defects."

Shareholders accused Zoom’s application of overstating its privacy standards and failing to disclose that its service was not encrypted end-to-end.

Shareholder Michael Drew said in one of the court files that a series of recent media reports highlighting the privacy flaws in the Zoom application led to a decline in the company's shares, which rose for several days at the beginning of the year.

Zoom shares rose 3.8% in late trading on Wednesday, after falling for a third in the previous 10 days.

Zoom hires a Facebook security manager
To address these problems, the company appointed former Facebook security director Alex Stamos as an adviser, and set up an advisory board to consider their privacy and security practices.

In late March, Stamos had called for a series of tweets Zoom to be more transparent and put forward a 30-day security plan. This led the platform founder and CEO Eric Yuan to ask Stamos to work as a consultant for the company.

"Zoom has some important work to do in basic application security, coded design and infrastructure security, and I'm looking forward to working with Zoom engineering teams on these projects," Stamos, associate professor at Stanford University, wrote in a blog.

To deal with security concerns, Zoom embarked on a 90-day plan and formed a Board of Information Security Directors that includes senior information security officers in major companies, to discuss privacy, security, and technology issues.

It has also set up a board to advise Yuan on privacy issues, and the first members include executives from companies such as Uber, Netflix, and others.

Zoom, which competes with Cisco Teams software from Microsoft and Cisco WebEx, saw daily users rise to 200 million from 10 million, and the stock rose to a record high in March.

Zoom attracts users with ease of use, in addition to providing it for free. Many schools around the world have also started using it for online education.