Large Hadron Collider hacked

Information Age ^ | 9-15-08

[ari-freedom]

[shadeaud]

No big deal, they just found the back door.

[prisoner6]

Coffee...nose...over the keyboard....LOL thingy!

prisoner6

[LibLieSlayer]

Find the hackers, execute, rinse, repeat. These hackers need to go down HARD! Security personnel should be fired and security systems should be updated.

LLS

[stylin_geek]

Well, I want to know who made the decision to set this thing up so it is connected to the internet.

I find it hard to believe that it’s necessary for scientists to have remote access to these systems.

As an IT person, I know just how stupid management can be, even smart people in management, when it comes to system security.

You would not believe the arguments and outright disdain people have for even the simplest security measures.

More than likely, the IT team was well aware of the potential for something like this to happen and warned against setting the computer systems up the way they are.

Unfortunately, they’ll probably get in trouble or be fired for being right.

[N. Theknow]

Someone hacked the Hadron?

Where's Lorena Bobbitt?

Oh. H-a-d-r-o-n.

Never mind.

[The Chid]

Hacked?

[aruanan]

Find the hackers, execute, rinse, repeat. These hackers need to go down HARD!

Yeah, kill the messenger.

[ko_kyi]

“More than likely, the IT team was well aware of the potential for something like this to happen and warned against setting the computer systems up the way they are.”

Your post is dead on. Most people, even senior management view proper security as “IT is throwing their weight around or just being paranoid.”

[yevgenie]

We analyze the data in Chicago.

[SampleMan]

Can someone explain to me why such systems even have a bridge between outside access and operative control features? If its a manned system, shouldn’t all of the controls be on an isolated internal intranet?

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Guess the “secrets of the universe” and “insights into the big bang” will have to wait until they change their passwords.

[stuartcr]

Why didn’t they just use a crypto device?

[Ilya Mourometz]

I don’t agree. They committed a crime, of course, but hackers are right about one thing—they indirectly do a great service by demonstrating the futility of most security systems and they help to make them better. If a couple kids can do this, imagine with a thousand dedicated hackers with unlimited resources (Russian, al-Qaeda, Chinese) can do. I say they should hire the hackers.

WW3 has already begun—it started several years ago when the Russians started massive attacks on US military websites and against sites of allies. al-Qaeda and China have also been doing enormous levels of attacks on security systems. I’m not suggesting these guys are on the same side—if anything, there’s a thousand sides in the war. But it is going on and we need all the help we can get.

[itsthejourney]

It’s all fun and games until someone hacks in and creates a black hole that can’t be contained.

[Renfield]

Can someone explain to me why such systems even have a bridge between outside access and operative control features?

Have you ever heard of the term, "educated idiot"?

[LibLieSlayer]

You make some salient points. Thanks.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

What message were they sending? I read they wanted to shut it down because as we all know... ALL LIFE WILL CEASE when they throw the switch! (sarc)

LLS

[Between the Lines]

Almost just as interesting, though, is the massive computer network CERN has set up to evaluate the prodigious quantities of data the LHC will produce. Called the LHC Grid, the network will encompass some 60,000 computers around the world in order to leverage enough computer power to go through the 15 petabytes of information LHC experiments will produce each year.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,577219,00.html