Heard of Drive-by Hacking? Meet Drive-by Spamming

'Warspammers' are taking advantage of unprotected wireless LANs to send out millions of junk emails. The proliferation of insecure corporate wireless networks is fuelling the growth of drive-by spamming, a security expert warned on Thursday. Speaking at the First International Security Users Conference in London, Adrian Wright, managing director of Secoda Risk Management, warned that junk emailers are taking advantage of unprotected wireless local area networks to bombard email users with unsolicited and unwelcome messages. "These people simply drive up to a building armed with their pornographic email, log into the insecure wireless network, send the message to 10 million email addresses and then just drive away," said Wright.

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just think, drive by McDonalds (or other favourite drive-thru retail/food outlet) hack into their systems and ramp up your 'prepaid' order

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a few months ago I read in the local paper that out of 5000 wireless lan's 6 were took more than 30 seconds to login to (Boston MA I think it was the Boston Herald) and I think people who don't secure their networks get what is coming to them (spam, virii, trojans, whatever) it is a relatively simple task to secure against most script-kiddies/hack by numbers types I mean how difficult is it to click the "encrypt data" radio button on a wireless nic/hub or install a firewall and anti-virus suite? while actual data security is a little more difficult, (CISSP, checkpoint, etc...) securing yourself against the majority of wannabes and paperbacks is not a difficult task at all

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