General Discussion

From the article:
“...CyberAlberta, an organization dedicated to improving cybersecurity in the Canadian province, published a report about WebinarTV when it noticed that it was stealing its Zoom calls.
“CyberAlberta’s investigation found that WebinarTV primarily gains initial access to Zoom webinars via third-party browser extensions. These extensions can access webinar links when a user either inadvertently grants calendar permissions—exposing meeting invitations—or willfully submits meeting details into the WebinarTV platform,” the report said. “WebinarTV is believed to leverage a range of browser extensions that provide functionalities such as AI powered transcription and note-taking tools, or tools to automate the joining of online meetings. The platform mostly relies on the widespread use of these tools by end users, rather than operating them directly. However, at least one of the known extensions is listed on the Chrome Web Store as developed by WebinarTV.”…..The Zoom spokesperson said that users who want to keep their calls private should avoid publicly posting meeting links when possible, require registration and manually approve registrants to carefully vet participants, and enable available deterrence features such as watermarking….”

We need more information to protect ourselves and much stronger privacy laws!! Be careful out there, folks!