First 'warspamming' case reaches court
Date: Thursday, September 30 @ 13:44:06 EDT
Topic: Wireless Security
A landmark case in America could establish that spammers really do take advantage of insecure wireless networks
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 warspamming -- also known as drive-by spamming -- will move from being just a theoretical possibility to a genuine threat.
A landmark case in America could establish that spammers really do take advantage of insecure wireless networks
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 warspamming -- also known as drive-by spamming -- will move from being just a theoretical possibility to a genuine threat.
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