'Big bang' experiment is hacked

[gkd_uk]

Part of the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was hacked into as the world's most powerful physics experiment got under way.

A group calling itself the "Greek Security Team" hacked into a computer connected to the system last Wednesday.

A spokesman for Cern, the lab that houses the LHC, said the hackers put up a message on the facility's website.

No harm was done but the incident has highlighted the need for security in the LHC's network, the spokesman said.

The hackers had targeted the computer network of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS), a huge detector that analyses data from the particle accelerator.

The LHC is attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, in which the universe was created.

With the world watching as the first particles began circulating in the LHC, engineers were searching the hacked computer for possible malicious damage.

The CMS website displayed a page with a mocking message, in Greek, which included the line: "We are 2600 - don't mess with us".

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[temi]

Interesting info, I think the hackers are mad, I think the computer creators are even madder not to have extremely high security around a massive project like this.

[neilrbowen]

Its clearly a twist on the events, it sounds like their website was hacked, not the experiment.

[Handsome]

hmmmm intresting... dont know whats the benefit to the hackers :-s

[ms2134]

I think that this is also mad, the "greek" hackers are mad!

If they had messed something up them, we could have all died because of them.

The LHC is meant to be run again in 6 months time and i hope that all of the security issues are fixed by that point.

The LHC, should be made safe and also of the computer systems should be much more secured.

~ Mike

[neilrbowen]

How could we all have died? All they are doing is firing atoms into other atoms and watching it...

[ms2134]

Originally Posted by neilrbowen

How could we all have died? All they are doing is firing atoms into other atoms and watching it...

There were also talks that if this recreates what happened after the big bang, like they want. that Black Holes may be created and that it my destroy the earth>

[neilrbowen]

But that was just a scare story made up by someone for a laugh? :P

[ms2134]

I know not to trust everything on the news but i had read it all over the place and after reading through a hell of alot of The Geneva Project files and documents. It did seem to me, that; in fact, it could have had that effect.

They have onlu fired it one way at the moment, but they plan to fire them together witin , say 6 months?

I think that the hackers may cause damage if they can access the system, Showing off i guess...

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[deluxdon]

Originally Posted by neilrbowen

Its clearly a twist on the events, it sounds like their website was hacked, not the experiment.

But ultimately you can say that some of data also hacked due to that neilbowen Hackers just want to proove that they are hackers and they can do anything

DON.