Rick-rolling is when hackers infiltrate Zoom meetings with a meme from the music video for singer Rick Astley's 1987 song Never Gonna Give You Up - which is a show stopper. That was a lot of what was happening with Zoom.” You jump into that meeting and you might rick-roll someone, or do something more offensive. “It’s the Zoom equivalent of prank calling someone. “Because of the way (Zoom) generates conference IDs for conferences on the free accounts, it was easy to join and automatically jump in,” said Bret Piatt, CEO of the San Antonio cybersecurity firm Jungle Disk. Other design flaws created an opening for “zoombombing”, where unwanted guests invade a video meeting with memes or vulgar disruptions. The company's 'end to end' encryption also was deemed insecure, potentially exposing users' communications to Zoom employees. The crush of new users, however, has exposed some of Zoom’s security vulnerabilities - one of which allowed hackers to gain access to a user's microphone or webcam. Before the outbreak, the video conference application mostly was used it for virtual work meetings and presentations.īut as the home-bound have sought ways to stay connected with friends and family, Zoom has grown from a peak of 10 million users in a single day last year to more than 200 million daily users in March, the company wrote in a recent blog post. Zoom has emerged as one of the most dominant platforms. With millions of Americans driven indoors by the novel coronavirus, they’re turning in big numbers to teleconferencing and video-chat platforms to host happy hours with friends, both teach and attend classes, and conduct business meetings.

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