Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/zoom-security-dropbox-hackers.html
Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them. One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking competition sponsored by Dropbox. At 30,000 feet, with nothing but a slow internet connection, they decided to get a head start by hacking Zoom, a videoconferencing service that they knew was used by many Dropbox employees. The hackers soon uncovered (...)