Greek Hacking at CERN

Because of the experiment that is taking place in CERN's LHC, all the world was wired in European Organization 's for Nuclear Technology web network on Wednesday 10th September 2008. So a team of Greek Hackers, who call themselves GST (Greek Security Team) hacked into the CERN's CMS, proving that it was doable for someone to obtain access to the network.

The team uploaded a statement in the webpage http://smsmon.cern.ch/zrwan/apanthsh/html from where the text has now been unpinned, but a screenshot of this announcement is open to the Internet.

From the attack there was no severe harm done, apart from a server's file which was destroyed, but it was a scary experience according to the Organization's Scientists, as from what they reported, if the team gained access to a second computer attached to the network they could obtain control of some of the LHC's components and maybe cause a severe damage.

Though, according to James Gilles, the attack was quickly noticed and the announcement soon went down.

It is also important to say, that the team made no political statement, but they just fired against other hacker teams and the Greek teenagers. They also report in their text that they corrected a network bug to avoid CERN's Network become a dork of every "wannabe hacker" and the fact that they did not intent to harm the Organization or it's network. For more information click on the image to enlarge.

Source : UK Telegraph and lots of Greek Blogs and Forums