The hackers wont even spare the People who are working to help us find how we came into existance. They hacked into part of the computer system of the Large Hardon Collider (LHC).
- Large Hadron Collider
The spokesan of Cern said that the hackers put up a message on the Facility’s Website.
No harm done but this shows that Cern has out all the Money in the Experiment and no money in the Security for the LHC.
The target for the hackers who call themselves “Greek Security Team” was the computer network of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS), a huge detector that analyses data from the particle accelerator.
Now what LHC is trying to do is known almost to everyone by now “The LHC is attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, in which the universe was created.”
The CMS website displayed a page with a mocking message, in Greek, which included the line: “We are 2600 – don’t mess with us”.
Now the webpage www.cmsmon.cern.ch is down.
Though the good part is that the computer hacked was not connected to the accelerator itself.
The Cern spokesman James Gillies said “It seems it was not a malicious hack and it was quickly detected and corrected but this sort of thing keeps you on your toes”.
Mr Gillies said the LHC had a general access network and a more restricted access network which controls the sensitive systems.
Though Cern did accept the lack of security.
The number 2600 is often used by the hacking community. It is believed to have originated in the US in the 1960s with the discovery that a tone of 2600Hz played down the line could be used to access restricted parts of the national telephone system.
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This post was written by Brad on September 15, 2008
