Wireless Drive-by

[Keefe]

I found this snippet on DLSreports, I thought it was quite humorous...

Not only are unsecured wireless networks being abused by Wardrivers, they are now being exploited by spammers, in the latest twist in the world of wireless security. Spammers are finding unprotected SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) ports and sending spam to entire corporate rosters. "These people simply drive up to a building armed with their pornographic e-mail, log into the insecure wireless network, send the message to 10 million e-mail addresses and then just drive away" warned Adrian Wright, managing director of Secoda Risk Management.

interesting

My buddy recently found an open SMTP server at cedant.com. It is now closed.

heh... drive by spamming

alot has been in the news lately about wireless network security... at the wireless networking conference earlier this year 7 out of 11 networks were insecure (i think thats the right numbers)

[vee_ess]

Crazy!!!

one thing to add

Pringles cans are excellent for collecting Wi-Fi bands

id personaly prefer the Original Flavour

There is no real need for wireless, except for the coolness factor.

nooooo....

you just dont have a need for it yet

a lot of business people needs to have meetings on the run through their laptop
they need to check stock quotes

some enterprises use WIFI handhelds to communicate and proceed with their operations

Apparently Britain has a huge problem with that. The "hackers" even developed a whole system called Warchalking to identify which building have run unsecured wireless connections.

I'll try and find the article....

http://www.warchalking.org/ has most of the info you need. It's in another thread farther down.