What we are doing to secure ourselves with Zoom
Issue 1. Zoom bombing
-Zoom meeting IDs are just 10 digits long. It’s easy for hijackers to enter a random string of numbers and join a Zoom meeting. If a Zoom meeting is set to public, it can be accessed by anyone with the correct link. Bad actors can find these addresses by searching on social media sites, where public meeting links are often posted.
Our response:
– Our meetings are secured with passwords, and links are privately shared.
– Where possible we will enable waiting rooms.
– Sharing is restricted to host only, unless participants are requested to share.
– We will lock the meeting down unless we have been notified there are late students.
Issue 2. Zero-day bugs allow hackers to hijack webcams, microphone and gain root access
Our response:
– This bug requires the hacker with local access – i.e. the hacker needs to physically access the Mac in question. This is not an issue if the Mac is secured at home.
Issue 3. Taiwan bans government from using Zoom as Data was routed through China.
Apparently researchers discovered that some traffic was routed through Beijing.
Our response:
– Zoom said the traffic was mistakenly routed through Beijing. It matters to governments or businesses worried about espionage, but does not matter to average users like us. from Study Room https://ift.tt/34o7jbw