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Zoom hosts can now pause a meeting while they remove a disruptive participant, and a new web-scanning tool will seek out compromised meeting links. Zoom has introduced new security measures to let hosts remove disruptive or unauthorized meeting participants and report them to Zoom administrators, alongside other tools to keep trolls at bay.
Zoom has announced today the rollout of new security enhancements designed to help meeting hosts to block zoombombing attempts and participants to report misbehaving users. Zoombombing happens when Zoom meetings are joined by unauthorized third parties with the goal to disrupt ongoing sessions and harass participants.
U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that a cyberattack was launched in 2018 against a Russian company believed to be behind some major disinformation campaigns, including ones targeting elections. The Washington Post reported in February 2019 that the U.S. Cyber Command, supported by the NSA, had launched an attack on the Internet Research Agency, a Saint Petersburg-based firm that is said to conduct online influence operations for the Russian government.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
As reports of "Zoom bombing" explode, the FBI is cracking down on the issue with a new warning that web conference hijackers could face jail time. These are punishable by fines and even imprisonment, according to the FBI. "You think Zoom bombing is funny? Let's see how funny it is after you get arrested," stated Matthew Schneider, United States Attorney for Eastern Michigan in a Friday public statement.
Well, hang on to your hats, hosts: before you set up meetings, you need to know how to block the trolls. As TechCrunch reports, on Tuesday, WFH Happy Hour - a popular daily public Zoom call hosted by The Verge reporter Casey Newton and investor Hunter Walk - got ZoomBombed.
Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence Thursday suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect. Facebook said the network of accounts it removed was in the "Early stages" of building an audience.
Cyborgs, trolls and bots can fill the internet with lies and half-truths. WAR OF THE BOTS AND CYBORGS. The disposable foot soldiers in this digital conflict are bots.
Those two forces are, one, individual social media users and, second, the engagement algorithms used by social media platforms. Social media algorithms can be used to magnify a troll's message and promote the re-sharing of a message that appeals to a niche corner of a social media platform.
They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.