Wireless Spam

ALSO CALLED: Pager Spam, Cell-phone Spam, Push Messaging, Mobile Phone Spam, Cell Phone Spam, SMS Spam, Mobile Spam, Cellphone Spam
DEFINITION: Drive-by spamming is a variation of drive-by hacking in which the perpetrators gain access to a vulnerable wireless local area network (WLAN) and use that access to send huge volumes of spam. Using the drive-by method allows spammers to save themselves the considerable bandwidth costs required to send that many messages legitimately, and makes it very difficult for anyone to trace the spam back to  … 
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WIRELESS SPAM DEFINITION (continued): …  its source. A drive-by spamming incident starts with war driving: driving around seeking insecure networks, using a computer equipped with a wireless Ethernet card and some kind of an antenna. A wireless LAN's range often extends beyond the building housing it, and the network may broadcast identifying information that makes access simple. Once the attacker finds an unprotected e-mail (SMTP) port, the attacker can send e-mail as easily as someone inside the building. To the mail server, the messages appear to have come from an authorized network user. According to a report in Geek News, 60-80% … 
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