* Wireless LAN * This article raises a new type of litigation liability for Enterprises, Government Agencies, Military organizations, Healthcare and Educational institutions: where a hacker breaches a Wi-Fi network and issues SPAM e-mail using an organization's servers and e-mail addresses.
The blow to an organizations public image would be serious, and expensive. David http://www.techzonez.com/comments.php?shownews=10352 A US citizen is thought to have become the first person to be accused of hacking a wireless network in order to send spam. Nicholas Tombros, 37, is charged under the US CAN-SPAM act, which aims to clamp down on unsolicited junk mail. Prosecutors allege that Tombros used a laptop to sniff out insecure residential wireless access points in a Los Angeles suburb, before using them to send spam across the internet. He faces a maximum sentence of three years' imprisonment. According to reports this week, a plea bargain is being negotiated. If Tombros is convicted or pleads guilty then 'war spamming' - also known as drive-by spamming - will move from being just a theoretical possibility to a genuine threat. Security experts have been concerned for years that hackers could take advantage of insecure Wi-Fi networks to propagate their wares. This would help them to overcome the blacklisting carried out by anti-spam campaigners such as Spamhaus, as well as sparing them from paying for bandwidth. The idea of war spamming being a real threat went down badly with some Wi-Fi pioneers, who perhaps feared it could endanger the growth of free wireless networks. For more information, try these WLAN resources. Security & Management of Government, Agency & Military Wi-Fi / 802.11 Networks: http://www.newburynetworks.com/events/seminar.aug4.php Wi-Fi Security Vulnerabilities at the DNC and the RNC: http://www.newburynetworks.com/events/wardrive.php Wireless LAN Management Solutions: Wifi Workplace Wireless LAN Security Solutions: Wifi Watchdog White Papers: Securing Wireless Enterprise Networks --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/5AhqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ******* Wireless LAN Weblog - WLAN Forum http://www.wireless--lan.com/ Wireless LAN Search http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=6750665 Wireless LAN Jobs - WLAN Jobs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wlanjobs/ http://www.azhttp.com/ <a href="http://www.azhttp.com/";> Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership</a> http://www.science-fairs.com/ <a href="http://www.science-fairs.com/";> Science Fairs</a> If you got this from someone else you can join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
