{"id":67091,"date":"2020-04-03T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=67091"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:55:30","slug":"fbi-issues-warning-about-zoom-meeting-app-heres-how-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=67091","title":{"rendered":"FBI issues warning about Zoom meeting app; here\u2019s how to protect yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online video meeting platform is being used by businesses, schools and even for birthday parties.<\/p>\n<p>But is the program meant to keep us connected safe to use?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation put out an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/contact-us\/field-offices\/boston\/news\/press-releases\/fbi-warns-of-teleconferencing-and-online-classroom-hijacking-during-covid-19-pandemic\">alert<\/a> warning people about the possibility of your meeting being hijacked.<\/p>\n<p>Security expert Carrie Kerskie said that just like with anything, there are risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to use it properly or you could end up in trouble,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s warning is about potential vulnerabilities in the app, mainly that your meeting can be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/it.cornell.edu\/zoom\/keep-zoom-meetings-private-and-reduce-odds-zoombombing\">Zoombombed<\/a>\u201d \u2013 joined by someone who wasn\u2019t invited or an inappropriate video added.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are posting screenshots of their meetings in real-time on social media, which lets anyone see their Zoom meeting number and opens the meeting up to uninvited people.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom is taking appropriate steps to secure their app, and Kerskie has a few <a href=\"https:\/\/security.berkeley.edu\/resources\/cybersecurity-and-covid-19\/settings-preventing-zoom-bombing\">recommendations to safely continue using the app<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up your meeting as private;<\/li>\n<li>Use passwords for participants;<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the host is notified when people join;<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t show your meeting ID number on social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online video meeting platform is being used by businesses, schools and even for birthday parties. But is the program meant to keep us connected safe to use? Earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation put out an alert warning people about the possibility of your meeting being hijacked. Security expert Carrie Kerskie said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[9,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67092,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67091\/revisions\/67092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}