LHC Hack Attack

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People are all worried that the Large Hardron Collider will bring about the end of the world. Personally I think the experiment will be safe. What I do worry about is some hacker group penetrating the security of the network, and messing around with things.

This exact scenario played out between September 9th & 10th at CERN. A group calling themselves Greek Security Team was able to deface one of the sites that is part of the LHC network. The site has been since unreachable to the public.

You can read the entire story here.

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