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How to prevent your ZOOM meeting from being hacked

There are numerous published reports of ZoomBombing – unauthorized hackers joining a meeting and wrecking havoc with porn, racist rants and the like.

Zoom’s CEO, Eric S. Yuan, acknowledged the problem in an April 1 message to the site’s users.

Yuan explained that his platform, which was designed to be used by enterprise customers like large financial institutions with full IT support and was not designed with the foresight that “in a matter of weeks, every person in the world would suddenly be working, studying, and socializing from home.”

Zoom usage has grown from 10 million people in December to over 200 million in March, according to a NPR report.

Zoom published a detailed guide, How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event on March 20.

An article in Fortune published on April 2, summarized the guide as follows:

  1. Do Not Share your meeting links publicly. Rather than share your link in a facebook group, use email.
  2. Set your meetings to “private.” Zoom now sets all new meetings to “private” by default. But, Fortune reports, users often make their meetings public as a matter of convenience. Don’t do that if you want to keep your meeting private. Put up with the hassle of a password.
  3. Don’t use your Personal Meeting ID. Only share your personal meeting ID with your most trusted contacts. Scheduled meeting should have a one-time meeting ID.
  4. Restrict video sharing.If the meeting host is the person who needs to share video, change the screen sharing setting to “Host Only.” Zoom has set this up as the default setting for K-12 teaching meetings.

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