Hackers Deface LHC Web Site
Category: General NewsPosted: September 12, 2008 07:56PM
Author: Nemo
A group of Greek hackers attacked a Large Hadron Collider web site and posted a page claiming responsibility for the act. The site, cmsmon.cern.ch, has since been taken off line and is no longer accessible to the public. Although the defacement was fairly benign, it raised concerns among some scientists at CERN because the hackers were one computer removed from a computer control system of one of the detectors that is part of the large collider. The target of the attack was CMSMON, part of the system that monitors data collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment. With scientists tweaking the system and getting ready for full-scale operation, any setbacks or delays could be critical. Besides defacing the site, the hackers also managed to damage one file and installed some additional files which the CMS team removed.
