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The intruders deployed unspecified hacking software at some of the stores, in once case crashing the point of sale terminals at a Lowe’s in Long Beach, California, according to the affidavit.

At some point, Lowe’s network administrators and security personnel detected and began monitoring the intrusions, and called in the FBI.

Last Friday evening a Bureau surveillance team staked out the Southfield Lowe’s parking lot, and spotted a white Grand Prix with suspicious antennas and two young men sitting inside.

Loveless says he’s noticed that at least some Lowe’s stores don’t take the basic precaution of turning on wi-fi’s standard encryption — called WEP — to declare their network off limits.

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This week we are dubiously celebrating the 20th birthday of the first release of the first computer virus. More info: [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3257165.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3257165.stm[/url]

As RedHat moved away from the individual user to concentrate on Enterprise, IBM is throwing it’s weight behind desktop Linux. Until now, IBM has favoured Linux for use on servers, which are networked machines for data storage and processing that typically are run by technically proficient administrators. The company has…

Any person or organization can be ordered to take measures to prevent computer attacks, which could jeopardize the city state’s defense, essential services, or foreign relations, according to a new amendment in the Computer Misuse Act.

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Scheduled to be available by the end of 2003, Microsoft Virtual PC offers customers a cost-effective safety net to ease their migration to Microsoft Windows XP Professional and a tool to help accelerate the development, testing, deployment and support of PC applications.

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 allows enterprise customers to run multiple operating systems on one PC, so employees can run critical legacy applications on an interim basis while information technology (IT) professionals proceed with the migration to Windows XP Professional.

Key features carried over from the former Connectix product include Virtual Machine Additions, which provides a high level of integration between host and guest operating systems, including integrated mouse, time synchronization, cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop, and folder sharing; Undo Disks, which allows users to delete any changes they make to the virtual hard disk during a session; and Differencing Disks, which lets multiple users and multiple virtual machines use the same parent virtual hard disk at the same time.

This extensive compatibility positions customers to migrate legacy applications and consolidate desktops for dramatic cost savings.

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