hadron hating hackers attack!
Telegraph.co.uk reports that Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider. The ne’er-do-wells, a group calling themselves the “Greek Security Team”, posted files on one of the LHC systems and changed the web page at the cmsmon.cern.ch website which was, and still may be, unreachable from the outside world for security purposes. The bad men, I don’t like calling them hackers unless it adds to my alliterations, came close to compromising the network of the Compact Muon Soleniod Experiment, or CMS, and possibly gaining entry to the control system of the 12,500 ton apparatus.
The white hat part of me speculates that the intruders only wanted to test the security of the network and would not have purposefully caused any harm; however, they left a rather nasty calling card up on the website to announce their intrusion. Regardless of their possibly good intentions, the LHC researchers do not need any wrenches in the works. Their jobs are complicated enough without worrying about who has access to their systems. I suppose that, had they really wanted to harness the power of the LHC’s high power computing for their own purposes they likely would have not made their presence known.
You can see an image of the web page by visiting the Telegraph.co.uk story directly.
