songre.blogg.se - Zoom meeting bomber

He said the incident was a first for the organization and thought that incorrect settings could be to blame for muted participants. Which we deeply regret.” Tjarks told Reuters. If you have further questions, please reply, we're happy to help.MBCA executive director Brent said, “We were victims of a teleconference, or Zoom, hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do next to prevent this from happening again. If you find this information helpful, please click on "Accept as Solution". Unfortunately, a meeting that is convenient and easy to get into for the intended attendees, is a meeting that is a perfect target for someone who wishes to cause issues, and just for fun, nothing else. I find that many of the meetings that get Zoom Bombed have been configured for the convenience of the attendees, the host didn't want to burden them with a couple of extra steps.It's about impossible to stop all bad behavior, but there are a lot of options that let you get pretty darn close.

I'm including a link to a great list of best practices.

Enable "Do Not Allow Removed Attendees to Log Back In".

I'd highly suggest getting very comfortable with quickly removing a bad apple from your meeting.

Use Focus Mode to remove everybody's video from everybody else, except those that are spotlighted by the host.

Instead, require the use of raising the digital hand, then have the host/co-host Request to Unmute when they wish to ask a question. They compare that against the existing attendees in the meeting looking for duplicates. They message those in the waiting room requiring them to provide a First and Last name.

A Waiting Room bouncer who manages it through-out the meeting.

A Waiting Room that never gets turned-off.

Here are a few items that can help, a lot. Unfortunately, we can't just stop bad behavior, and tougher than that in your case is bad behavior from somebody who is tech savvy. One could just PIN the video they wish to capture to their 2nd monitor, capture it with OBS, vMix, etc and then designate the OBS, vMix output as the camera into Zoom.

Capturing an attendees video from a Zoom meeting is pretty easy, as well.