NetFlash: Mooching Wi-Fi

NetFlash: Mooching Wi-Fi
08/12/05

In this issue:

* Mooching Wi-Fi
* Ex WorldCom CFO Sullivan gets 5 years in jail
* IBM offers grid-like application processing
* AOL to give away spammer loot
* Today on Layer 8
* Links related to NetFlash
* Featured reader resource
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GARTNER'S SECURITY HYPE-O-METER

What is hype and has it influenced your network security
efforts? At a recent Gartner security summit, analysts described
what they say are "The Five Most Overhyped Security Threats,"
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NETFLASH: BREAKING NEWS FROM NETWORKWORLD.COM

By Sheryl Hodge

If you connect to someone else's open Wi-Fi router and start
using that broadband Internet service you are:
a) guilty of stealing from the service provider; b) committing
an unethical act; c) really cheap; d) not guilty; or e) all of
the above.
The correct answer is wide open to debate. But the range of
possible answers is indicative of the variety of passionately
held opinions and legal murk on this question, which gained
renewed attention last month when news reports surfaced about
the arrest of Benjamin Smith, who St. Petersburg, Fla., police
allege "wilfully, knowingly and without authorization" accessed
a home Wi-Fi network from a parked car in front of someone's
house.
Mooching Wi-Fi
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5004>

Ex WorldCom CFO Sullivan gets 5 years in jail

Former WorldCom CFO Scott Sullivan Thursday was sentenced to
five years in prison for his role in engineering the $11 billion
accounting fraud that led to the bankruptcy of the
telecommunications powerhouse.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5005>

IBM offers grid-like application processing

IBM this week announced upgraded software that the company says
will let enterprise IT managers automatically distribute
application workloads across multiple servers as well as process
batch and long-running jobs with spare capacity.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5006>

AOL to give away spammer loot

In its own twist on letting the punishment fit the crime, AOL is
disciplining a spammer who helped the company win an anti-spam
lawsuit by giving away a substantial stash of loot purchased
with profits from his illegal business. The prizes are part of
assets recovered from spammer Braden Bournival in the first
lawsuit AOL filed under the federal CAN-SPAM act of 2003.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5007>

Today on Layer 8, where we have no problems with our Eagles
contract:

MIT develops Jerk-O-Meter; the best keyboard ever; the loneliest
guy at Microsoft; and is text messaging finally catching on?;
all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking
news.
<http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8>

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Ex WorldCom CFO Sullivan gets 5 years in jail
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5008>

2. Microsoft open source exec: Not the loneliest guy in Redmond
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash4854>

3. LinuxWorld: Reporter's notebook
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/081005-linuxworld.html?t5>

4. IBM offers grid-like application processing
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5009>

5. Scottish police pick Windows in software line-up
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash5010>
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To contact: Sheryl Hodge

Sheryl Hodge is the Senior Online Copy Chief for Network World
Fusion. She can be reached at <mailto:shodge@nww.com>
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World's Storage Executive Guide.
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