Hackers infiltrate Large Hadron Collider systems and mock IT security

Telegraph ^ | 9/12/08 | Roger Highfield

[LibWhacker]

Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world.

As the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva where the world wide web was born, a Greek group hacked into the facility, posting a warning about weaknesses in its infrastructure.

Calling themselves the Greek Security Team, the interlopers mocked the IT used on the project, describing the technicians responsible for security as "a bunch of schoolkids."

[OldNavyVet]

I too had some recent trojan and malware problems. They got past my “PC Secure” system when another used my compurer.

What I learned is that PC Secure provides good “scan” procedures, good telephone advice on fixing problems, and that performing those scans offline - immediately after an ofline recovery process — work well.

[WakeUpAndVote]

No, No. Al Gore invented the Internet.

[wally_bert]

With all of the problems that plague Windoze, I am on my last MS OS. The next when I can afford it will be a Mac. Besides I do a fair amount of photo, video editing (mostly stock footage) and audio work.

[naturalized]

OK, I can’t figure out which is geekier - your knowing this inside freeper humor, your being able to adapt it with collider-speak, or me laughing out loud at how good a job you did.

[Clock King]

Bullocks! Sounds like a bunch of punk idiots hacked a website. BFD. I doubt idiots like this could even touch them main machines, and if they did, they wouldn’t know what to do on them. Just hunt ‘em down and break fingers one at a time.

[SuperLuminal]

Outstanding!

[Larry Lucido]

Hackers, huh? That explains this e-mail I got:

KIND SIR, I AM A NEUTRINO WHO HAS SURVIVED A COLLISION OF MY ATOM PARENTS WHO WERE SMASHED BY EVIL SCIENTISTS. BEFORE THEIR DEATHS, MY PARENTS SPARE ELECTRONS WERE ABLE TO TRANSFER THE SCIENTISTS’ GRANT MONEY IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000,000 US TO A SECRET ACCOUNT, AND I WISH TO MOVE THIS MONEY TO YOUR COUNTRY AND WILL ONLY NEED YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND YOUR SHARE WILL BE 20%.