Lowe?s, one of the largest American home improvement super stores was hacked into by 21-year old Brian Salcedo back in 2003. Salcedo and two of his accomplices, Adam Botbyl and Paul Timmins, setup a van in one of the Lowe?s parking lots rigged with several Wi-Fi antennas and some special tools.<\/p>\n
They managed to sniff enough information from an unsecured access point to grant them access to the Lowe?s national computer system where they installed a back door to capture credit card information. <\/p>\n
Hacking for fun is one thing, but as soon as you mess with the big banks you are in some deep trouble. Salcedo last week was sentenced to 9 years in prison, the longest period of time ever sentenced to a computer hacker in the United States, even Kevin Mitnick was only sentenced to 5 years and 8 months. Botbyl and Timmins still await their sentencing.<\/p>\n
from [url=http:\/\/www.mobilemag.com\/content\/100\/344\/C3508\/]Mobile mag[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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