# ‘War Dialing’ Tool Exposes Zoom’s Password Problems — Krebs on Security

<https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/war-dialing-tool-exposes-zooms-password-problems/>

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## What Jamie wrote

The huge proliferation of Zoom usage has people exploiting weak defaults. Set a password for your Zoom meetings. Nothing complicated needed. Feel free to use "monkey123" or "password". You just need something that puts whatever minimal lock on the door. Now Black Hat tools are being created to make it even easier.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT142: Weekly Thing #142 / Signaling, Zoom, Bill Gates, Decision Journal](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/142/), Recommended Links

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## Elsewhere

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