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How to Mitigate Zoom Hijacking

While in a Zoom meeting for assisting students during a turbulent time, after about 20 minutes, it was quickly taken over by 'pranksters' with inappropriate images. There was a flurry of the event hosts trying to pull up the settings to remove the troublemakers. The meeting was quickly retooled to put everyone on mute for the next round. A lot of people have been quickly thrust into this world of web conferencing, and selected Zoom, a software that works, but with little to no security. There's certainly no end to end encryption.  Why is this serious? Because video streaming uses UDP packets, and an attacker doesn't need all of them to get the gist of the information being transferred. I don't want to see people scramble to reestablish professionalism, so I made a quick guide. I downloaded this spyware Zoom onto a test phone and laptop to set up a test meeting: Auphelia Degardess is the name of the phone, and the one with the visual of myself. Mirr...