VeriLAN Event Services, tells DailyWireless that they have been chosen by MAAWG (Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group) to provide enterprise network services for its membership. VeriLAN will provide the wireless connectivity for the group’s meetings held around the globe.
VeriLAN provisions and deploys just-in-time temporary wired and wireless enterprise-grade networks for professional and technical organizations around the world.
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group is a global organization focusing on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse. ISPs and network operators, representing over 600 million mailboxes, key technology providers and senders, works with MAAWG to address messaging abuse by focusing on technology, industry collaboration and public policy initiatives.
In related news, the Seattle Times explains an increasing number of criminals are taking advantage of the anonymity offered by the wireless signals to commit serious crimes — from identity theft to the sexual solicitation of children.
“We’re not sure yet how to combat that,” said Kevin West, a federal agent who oversees the computer-crimes unit in North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation. “Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people … to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if we talk about it, people will learn about it and say, ‘I can go to a parking lot, and no one will catch me.’ But we need to talk about it so that we can figure out how to solve it.”
WiFiNetNews thinks the problem may be overblown:
The interesting point here is not that this story is biased towards a particularly naive view of law enforcement or the idea that there must be millions of people engaged in illegal activity over open Wi-FI networks; nor that open Wi-Fi networks are de facto bad and/or unintentional; or that this story has been told better, with greater balance, in other publications over the last couple of years. No, what’s interesting is that more and more home networks are being locked down. In informal and formal surveys by myself and companies involved in monitoring this sort of activity, an increasing number of home networks are locked down with strong WPA security, making them more or less impenetrable to even determined access.
In other news, two Ohio high-school girls face expulsion and criminal charges after allegedly using their access to a Web server to post a notice that the local schools had closed due to snow.
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