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Apple updates Mac to fix faulty video conferencing app
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IANS | 11 Jul, 2019
To fix a faulty feature on video conferencing app Zoom, Apple has released a silent update for Mac users.
To
fix the vulnerability that was letting websites automatically add users
to a video call without their permission, Apple's update would now
prompt users asking them if they want to open the app.
According
to Apple, the automatically-deployed update removes the hidden web
server, which Zoom quietly installed on users' Macs when they installed
the app, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday.
The video
conferencing platform faced flack from users following a public
vulnerability disclosure on Monday by a software engineer Jonathan
Leitschuh after he described how any website could forcibly join a user
to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user's
permission.
On Tuesday, Zoom released a fixed app version however
Apple said its actions would protect users both past and present from
the undocumented web server vulnerability without affecting or hindering
the functionality of the Zoom app itself, the report said.
Over four million users across 750,000 companies use Zoom for video conferencing around the world.
"We're
happy to have worked with Apple on testing this update. We expect the
web server issue to be resolved today. We appreciate our users' patience
as we continue to work through addressing their concerns," the report
quoted a Zoom spokesperson as saying.
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