![]() But the fact that it is so easy for anyone to join and then disrupt a public Zoom meeting at all indicates that Zoom’s developers didn’t anticipate the ways those meetings could be disrupted in the first place - something that anyone who has used the internet before really should have foreseen. There are ways to mitigate this, such as password protecting meetings or limiting the screensharing setting to the meeting host. ![]() Public Zoom events that have been targeted must shut down to stop the broadcast. So now we have “ Zoombombing,” where public Zoom meetings are joined by a troll who broadcasts things like porn and Nazi imagery to the rest of the room. Zoom instituted a number of changes to help fix the issue, but Check Point’s recommendation that meetings must be password protected was not. In January, cybersecurity firm Check Point found a way that a hacker could easily generate active meeting ID numbers, which they could then use to join meetings if the meetings weren’t password protected. Leading up to the pandemic, Zoom suffered from several security issues, including a well-publicized vulnerability that could force Mac users that have (or ever had) Zoom installed on their device to join Zoom meetings with their cameras automatically activated. It is currently the most popular Apple and Android app in the world, and its stock price has more than doubled since late January - an especially impressive rise considering the stock market crash that also occurred during this time. ![]() When the pandemic hit, forcing millions of workers and students to work remotely and friends and family members to interact virtually, many of them turned to Zoom. Zoom was released in 2013 and steadily climbed the videoconferencing app ranks, becoming one of the most popular business apps out there for the last several years. How lax security brought us “Zoombombing” ![]() On Monday, Zoom found itself the recipient of not just a letter from New York Attorney General Letitia James but also a class action lawsuit, both over privacy issues that have been brewing since even before the coronavirus existed but which gained momentum once seemingly everyone began using it. With this popularity has come a wave of scrutiny, and Zoom’s new users have been joined by a lawsuit, a letter from a state attorney general, and accusations of shady privacy practices. Zoom, the videoconferencing app that’s dominating our coronavirus-created work, school, and social lives, is more popular than ever.
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