Security News > 2020 > April > How to prevent Zoom bombing: 5 simple tips

Video conferencing app Zoom has had a meteoric rise in users due to the coronavirus outbreak, and with that rise in users has come security woes and an annoying new trend known as "Zoom bombing." Zoom bombing is, in essence, crashing a digital meeting and doing things like screaming obscenities, broadcasting pornography, and otherwise interrupting people's attempts to talk to coworkers, family, and friends.

Even with all of Zoom's security issues, it can't be blamed entirely for the Zoom bombing trend-internet trolls have been using publicly posted meeting links, guessing meeting IDs, and using personal meeting IDs posted online as ways to join meetings uninvited.

Zoom has built-in tools that can prevent Zoom bombings from occurring, and they're all remarkably easy to enable when creating a new meeting.

Never use your personal meeting ID. Each Zoom user has a personal meeting ID-think of it as your Zoom phone number.

Zoom bombers need to be able to visually take over a meeting to be effective, and preventing anyone from sharing their screen aside from the meeting host stops them from being able to go on the attack.

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