Here's how to stop uninvited hackers from popping into video meetings and wreaking havoc.
The act of so-called “Zoombombing,” in which people enter video calls uninvited, seems to have become a regular occurrence as the tool’s popularity has skyrocketed during lockdown. Even bedtime readings for children have been hijacked, as one HuffPost staff member witnessed.
Zoom said it’s using feedback from users to guard against these attacks and privacy breaches, and said at the start of April, the company stopped working on new features in order to focus solely on privacy issues. It was relatively popular pre-lockdown, but it’s become a household name since the coronavirus outbreak, as more of us have had to work, socialize and learn from home. To put that into perspective: The number of people using it daily jumped from 10 million in December 2019 to 200 million in March.How have hackers been able to enter people’s video calls?
But in some cases, that ID has become public – whether hackers found it in a web search or simply guessed it using a random set of numbers – and other people have joined the video call. This is called Zoombombing.Previously, when a host organized a Zoom meeting, they had the option to add an additional password – so their pals would need this,the meeting ID, to enter. As this was an option and not the default, though, it wasn’t always used by hosts.
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