{"id":41647,"date":"2020-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newrcblog.wpengine.com\/how-to-avoid-zoombombs\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:27:13","slug":"how-to-avoid-zoombombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/how-to-avoid-zoombombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid getting Zoombombed by following these best practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated Apr 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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While video conferencing is not a new technology, the entire world is now learning to find creative ways to continue being productive while not being able to be physically in the same room (hello, social distancing).<\/p>\n

Teachers have taken to virtual classrooms<\/a>, healthcare providers are using video calls to provide telehealth<\/a>, friends are sharing links in order to share time, and the world is learning to move forward, even when we can\u2019t be together.<\/p>\n

In a time where it\u2019s not only good, but also necessary to be an early adopter to new technology, one conferencing platform that received initial attention was Zoom.<\/p>\n

But like all technologies, video conferencing has its hiccups. It was only a matter of time until hackers and people with too much time on their hands found a way to turn something good into something gross.<\/p>\n

Enter \u201cZoombombing.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s lots of video conferencing software<\/a> out there, but much like most of us now know what it is to \u201cUber home\u201d even when we\u2019re using a Lyft, it\u2019s become clear that \u201cZoombombing\u201d isn\u2019t limited only to, well, Zoom.<\/p>\n

In this post, we\u2019ll look at:<\/p>\n