For instant meetings, the password will be displayed in the Zoom client. Zoom communicated the changes to users via an email sent this afternoon that explains 'we've chosen to enable passwords on your meetings and turn on Waiting Rooms by default as additional security enhancements to protect your privacy.' The company also explained that 'For meetings scheduled moving forward, the meeting password can be found in the invitation. Clearly it determined that wasn't sufficient, so now waiting rooms are on by default for everyone. But at the time, the company merely said it would default to making screensharing host-only and keeping waiting rooms on for its K-12 education users.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan apologized for the security failures this week and vowed changes. Meanwhile, it will change virtual waiting rooms to be on by default so hosts have to manually admit attendees. TechCrunch reports: Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID, as these may be guessed or reused.

The act was recently mentioned on the Department of Justice's website, warning that users who engage in this sort of video hacking could face fines and possible imprisonment. Zoom is making some much-needed changes to prevent 'Zoombombing,' a term used to describe when someone successfully invades a public or private meeting over the videoconferencing platform to broadcast shock videos, pornography, or other disruptive content.

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