Zoom: When Porn hijacked US government’s Zoom meeting – Times of India
A virtual event with Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller was canceled earlier this month after the Zoom video conference was "hijacked" by a participant who displayed pornographic images. "We were a victim of a teleconference or Zoom hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do going forward to prevent this from ever happening again. It is an incident we deeply regret," said Brent Tjarks, executive director of the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America (MBCA), which hosted the event via a Zoom link. "We have had various programs and this is something that we have never had happen to us." He said that he suspects one of the security switches that mutes those watching an event was set incorrectly, but he was not sure of the details. The decision to cancel was made in ...