If your business has a wireless network, there is a good chance that anyone breaking into it is doing so to launch a spam attack, according to research carried out by London-based security consultants Z/Yen and reported by Computing magazine.
Z/Yen set up two wireless 'honeypots' to monitor hacking activity throughout March. Earlier this week, OUT-LAW.COM reported on a similar test by KPMG. Z/Yen found that almost one quarter of unauthorised connections to the networks were intentional, with 71% of these used to send e-mail.
Using a company's private network gives the spammer anonymity: all e-mails are traced to the company which is has become the unwitting sender.
A group of landowners in South Africa has gone head to head with state entities over the contentious issue of erecting transmission powerlines across their properties, in a significant legal showdown unfolding in the country’s courts.
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