In a rare wireless hacking prosecution, federal officials this week accused two Michigan men of repeatedly cracking the Lowe’s chain of home improvement stores’ nationwide network from a 1995 Pontiac Grand Prix parked outside a suburban Detroit store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
At some point, Lowe’s network administrators and security personnel detected and began monitoring the intrusions, and called in the FBI.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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