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If you use video conferencing, you are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Here are tips to keep your sessions and devices safe

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Raju Chellam

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Now that most of us are working from home and have stopped travelling, we are keeping in touch with colleagues, customers, business partners, suppliers, relatives and friends through technologies such as text chat, file sharing, and audio and video conferencing.
In particular, video-based collaboration has come to the fore. There are a slew of apps for this, including Zoom and FaceTime, which make use of our laptops' webcams and our smartphones' cameras.
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