{"id":17064,"date":"2020-04-11T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T04:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/singapore-bans-teachers-using-zoom-after-hackers-post-obscene-images-on-screens"},"modified":"2020-04-11T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:53:44","slug":"singapore-bans-teachers-using-zoom-after-hackers-post-obscene-images-on-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17064","title":{"rendered":"Singapore bans teachers using Zoom after hackers post obscene images on screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Very serious incidents\u2019 have forced suspension from online schools as conferencing app faces renewed questions over security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/apr\/10\/trump-press-briefing-council-taskforce-reopen-us\">Trump plans council to consider when to lift curbs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/10\/coronavirus-uk-deadliest-day-deaths-announced\">UK daily death toll is 980on worst day so far<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/apr\/11\/coronavirus-live-news-trumps-biggest-decision-curbs-who-on\">Coronavirus latest global updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers after \u201cvery serious incidents\u201d in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.<\/p>\n<p>One incident involved obscene images appearing on screens and male strangers making lewd comments during the streaming of a geography lesson with teenage girls, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/11\/singapore-bans-teachers-using-zoom-after-hackers-post-obscene-images-on-screens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Very serious incidents\u2019 have forced suspension from online schools as conferencing app faces renewed questions over securityTrump plans council to consider when to lift curbsUK daily death toll is 980on worst day so farCoronavirus latest global update&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,783,58,1344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-singapore","category-technology","category-zoom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17076,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions\/17076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}