, SecurityFocus 2004-06-04
In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a scheme to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured wi-fi network at a store in suburban Detroit.
Anonymous
It's time to start asking Lowe's for an explanation of why they were using an unsecured wireless network. If it's unsecured because it needed to work with telephones and scanners, then it should have been firewalled from customer data and other stores.
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