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:
Read the rest of this entry » Posted: April 3rd, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: COVID-19 | Tags: Cybersecurity, Eric S Yuan, Zoom, Zoom.us, ZoomBombing | Comments Off on How to prevent your ZOOM meeting from being hacked