![]() ![]() The group, who have been meeting regularly on Zoom to discuss industry issues and for general support during the coronavirus pandemic, had a session Zoombombed. ”Ī recent Zoom meeting by digital identity industry group Women in Identity (WiD) experienced the sexist side of Zoombombing. In late March, the FBI put out a warning that video conferencing platforms were being hijacked, saying: “ FBI has received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language. ![]() Zoombombing: Why it’s more than just annoying With this in mind, I’ll take a look at the security aspects of using Zoom in a business context and the current options available on the platform to improve safety. But a phenomenon known as Zoombombing is threatening the safe use of Zoom for work. In doing so, sensitive and proprietary information is shared. Zoom is used by many of those 200 million participants for business purposes. In March this year, we reached more than 200 million daily meeting participants … ” In a letter to users, Zoom’s founder Eric Yuan said : “ … as of the end of December last year, the maximum number of daily meeting participants, both free and paid, conducted on Zoom was approximately 10 million. The daily active users (DAU) of Zoom had increased from 10 million to 200 million in the three months leading up to March 2020. This video conferencing platform is less than 10 years old but is seeing record numbers of users since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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