Security Awareness – Lock Down Virtual Meeting Platforms to Avoid “ZoomBombing”

ZoomBombing – it’s photo-bombing for virtual meetings. As countless citizens work and learn from home through virtual conferences, miscreants are trolling social media for open/public links to Zoom and other virtual meetings. There have been numerous reports of conferences being bombed with unsavory images and hate speech. Anyone publicly sharing virtual conference links on social media, such as Instagram/Twitter/Facebook and other mediums where they could be discovered by scoundrels should change screensharing to “Host Only” before a call begins. Other settings to protect your virtual meetings should include:

• Enabling Waiting Rooms which disables “Join Before Host” so people cannot make mischief before you join
• Assign others to co-host or organizer roles so they can help police participants while you run the meeting
• Disable file transferring so malicious actors cannot share malware
• Do not allow booted participants to rejoin

Visit Zoom for more best practices to keep your Zoom, or similar virtual meeting spaces from being bombarded by internet trolls. Read the article at Threatpost