Protect your Zoom meetings with a password now — otherwise, you're leaving the door wide open for hackers to 'Zoom-bomb'
on Thursday that it would put a 90-day freeze on new features in order to focus on bolstering the platform's security.
In order to find Zoom calls to join without an invite, hackers are using an online tool called zWarDial, according to afrom cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs. Every Zoom meeting has a unique meeting ID, and zWarDial is an automated tool that guesses IDs until it finds one that works. If there's no password on a meeting, the intruder will be instantly added to the call.says
passwords are now enabled by default for new users, enterprise clients like schools and businesses may not have this setting enabled. Zoom's settings page allows users to configure passwords. To maximize security, require a password for all meetings.
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