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Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowe's WiFi hacks
Kevin Poulsen, 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.

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Re: Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks 2006-06-02
Anonymous
So true. Lowes Security team may have jumped up and down asking for solutions, but between department managers hollering that security "holds back progress" and upper-management crying "we don't have the money", more of this stuff is likely to happen. It WILL get worse before it gets better....

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