{"id":13546,"date":"2020-04-21T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:05:35","slug":"kaspersky-shares-10-tips-for-zoom-security-and-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/kaspersky-shares-10-tips-for-zoom-security-and-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky shares 10 tips for Zoom security and privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

With social distancing and quarantine measures implemented around the globe, people quickly started searching for effective means of communicating with each other. With its reported ease of use and attractive pricing, Zoom quickly rose in popularity. With so much use, Zoom\u2019s flaws came rapidly to light. The company handled the tremendous increase of workload seamlessly and quickly reacted to security researchers\u2019 discoveries. However, just like with each and every service, code updates will not address every complaint, but some issues are very much worth keeping in mind. So, here we offer 10 security and privacy tips for Zoom users. Keep in mind, that most of them apply to other video messengers too!<\/p>\n

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  1. Protect your account<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A Zoom account is just another account, and in setting yours up, you should apply the basics of account protection. Use a strong and unique password<\/a>, and protect your account with two-factor authentication<\/a>, which makes your account harder to hack and better protected, even if your account data leaks (though so far that hasn\u2019t happened).<\/p>\n

    There\u2019s at least one more Zoom-specific catch: After you register, in addition to your login and password you get a Personal Meeting ID. Avoid making it public. And because Zoom offers an option to create public meetings with your Personal Meeting ID (PMI), it\u2019s quite easy to leak that ID. If you do, anyone who knows your PMI can join any meeting you host, so share this information prudently.<\/p>\n

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    1. Use your work e-mail to register with Zoom<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      A glitch in Zoom<\/a> causes the service to consider e-mails of the same domain \u2014 unless it\u2019s a really common domain such as @gmail.com or @yahoo.com \u2014 as belonging to one company, and it shares their contact details with each member of that group. For example, that happened to users who registered Zoom accounts using e-mails ending with @yandex.kz, which is a public e-mail service in Kazakhstan, and it may happen again with e-mail addresses belonging to smaller public e-mail providers.<\/p>\n

      So, to register with Zoom, use your work e-mail. Sharing your work contact details with your real colleagues should not be a big deal. If you don\u2019t have a work e-mail, use a burner account with a well-known public domain to keep your personal contact details private.<\/p>\n

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      1. Don\u2019t fall for fake Zoom apps<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        As Kaspersky security researcher Denis Parinov discovered, this March the number of malicious files incorporating the names of popular video conference services (Webex, GoToMeeting, Zoom, and others) in their filenames had roughly tripled in comparison with the numbers he found month by month over the previous year. That most likely means malefactors are ramping up their abuse based on the popularity of Zoom and other apps of its kind, trying to disguise malware as videoconference clients.<\/p>\n

        It’s advised to use Zoom\u2019s official website \u2014 zoom.us<\/a> \u2014 to download Zoom safely for Mac and PC, and to go to the App Store<\/a> or Google Play<\/a> for the mobile versions.<\/p>\n

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        1. Don\u2019t use social media to share conference links<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Sometimes you want to host public events, and in many places online events are the only type of public events available these days, so Zoom is attracting more and more people. But even if your event is truly open to everyone, you should avoid sharing the link on social media. Otherwise, there\u2019s a chance that trolls can disrupt your meeting with offensive content, this phenomenon is now called Zoombombing.<\/p>\n

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          1. Protect every meeting with a password<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Setting up a password for your meeting remains the best means of ensuring that only the people you want in your meeting can attend it. Recently Zoom turned password protection on by default, which is a good move. And like meeting links, meeting passwords should never appear on social media or other public channels, or your efforts to protect your call from trolls will be in vain.<\/p>\n

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            1. Enable Waiting Room<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Another setting that gives you more control over the meeting, is Waiting Room \u2014 recently enabled by default \u2014 makes participants wait in a \u201cwaiting room\u201d until the host approves each one. That gives you the ability to control who joins your meeting, even if someone who wasn\u2019t supposed to participate somehow got the password for it. It also lets you kick an unwanted person out of the meeting \u2014 and into the waiting room. We recommend leaving this box ticked.<\/p>\n

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              1. Pay attention to screen-sharing features<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Every normal videoconference app offers screen-sharing \u2014 the ability of one participant to show their screen to the others \u2014 and Zoom is no exception. Some settings that are worth keeping an eye on:<\/p>\n