Zoom, a widely used video conferencing service, is within the news for zoombing. Zoombombers can be a recently coine term for events when random strangers crop up and harass users in non-secure zoom meetings. Corporates seem to be trying to revert to trolls who hijack zoom meetings to create chaos. It is adding a replacement way for users to report such trolls. Through a replacement button, the zoom meeting participants are about to be ready to tell the zoom when Zoombombers occurs. The corporate is hoping it will help trace trolls.
According to a report by PC Mag, the corporate was scheduled to feature a “report to zoom” button on Sunday. But was later postponed. Those who host the Zoom meeting will soon be ready to view and use the buttons on their devices. The host will get to participate in the “Security” icon on Rock Bottom and click “Report” when an attacker does some mischief.
“Account owners and administrators can now enable a setting to allow hosts to report to zoom. This feature will generate a report, which can be sent to Zoom Trust and Safety Team for any misuse of the platform and a user can be blocked if needed.
This setting is at the account, group and user level and can be locked at the group or account level, ”Zoom said on its support page.
The incidents of zoombing are under the scrutiny of the US Enforcement Agency Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). It recommended that zoom users make all meetings private and avoid screen sharing. Many cases of zoombombing are reporte by people, with a large jump within the number of Zoom users. Many are sharing their experiences using #zoombombed on Twitter. Businessmen, journalists, officials are all handling intruders on the video-conference service.
Singapore even had to suspend the use of zoom by teachers within the city-state, where pornographic images appeared on screen while students were taking lessons. With the new update, they can now report that user. Keep yourself updated with more new update at Need Tricks.
