"This was our wake-up call," Yuan told CNN Business over a Zoom interview from his San Jose home in April. Now, "Zoom is not only a business communication company, suddenly it's becoming an infrastructure company," Yuan said. AT&T, which owns CNN's parent company WarnerMedia, offers business customers Cisco's WebEx collaboration software, which competes with Zoom. And unlike WebEx meetings, with their hard-to-remember pins and meeting IDs, Zoom would be accessible with a simple link. "Zoom is Malware," reads one headline, while a trio of security researchers published "Zoom isn't Malware," offering a number of steps to bolster up security for the average user.

Source: The Nation November 23, 2020 13:03 UTC