Zoom’s 5.0 update helps stop zoombombing and improves encryption

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Zoom today launched its 5.0 update, adding some of the security updates the company has promised since the software shot up in popularity among the coronavirus pandemic. Among the biggest changes are support for stronger encryption,  enabling passwords by default, and a new hub for easy access to important security settings.

With version 5.0, Zoom will now use the AES 256-bit GCM encryption standard. That will help your data be more difficult to access, though it’s still not the originally-claimed end-to-end encryption. Still, it’s something, and business users can now even control which data center regions their video calls are routed through, after some experts expressed concerns about routing through China.