Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider

[Solaris]

Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world as it passes an important new milestone.

[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/12/scicern212.xml]Read it here

[bahirzaheri8]

this is a setback for advances in science and technology, maybe the hackers are religious fanatics

[Flubug]

If only I can copy the text and translate it. I'm really eager to know what they wrote there. Thanks for posting this up Solaris. This is surely an interesting read.

[brayden]

Damn those hackers suck.

[prashanthpai]

Sometimes I really admire some hackers for being geniuses but this feat is intolerable. These hackers are misusing their talent and intelligence.

[Mark]

Hmm.. anyone Greek here who can translate this..?

And I agree with Prashanthpai.. hackers are misusing their telent and inteeigence

[Solaris]

By people's demand, here is the translation:

Line-by-line translation:

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10/09/08

At this time an experiment attempt is being performed in CERN.

The reason we chose this page is to remind you of some things.

It [the deface] did not happen due to a conflict between us and CERN’s system administration team but because of the expected increase in number of visitors in the page in the next few days.

Some data from the base:

[...a c/p of the process listing follows...]

and some e-mails:

[...a c/p of e-mails follows...]

The ** have simply been placed so that we don’t expose people who has done nothing to anger us.

As we stated in the preamble, we do not want to destroy either the [operating] system or the website… Our purpose is to show, through action, our reaction to a lot of “active” members of the GHS [Greek Hacking Scene] which has become arrogant (litteral translation of the phrase “Καβαλήσει το καλάμι”, riding the stick) without offering anything…

Stupid cliques get created simply to insult and cause trouble (translated from “τραμπούκος”, insulting troublemaker, “τραμπουκίζω”, cause insult & trouble) through either words or IRC channel banning people who are not considered, by them or their flunkies, worthy of their knowlege and their image.

Some others, the 1337 (leet, elite) of the “scene”, only chat over cups of coffee and don’t do anything practical, as they are good at gossiping…but of “security”…what is that? we are 2600…don’t mess with us.

IRRELEVANT AND QUAINT!

Stop salivating and licking and start keyboarding! But, of course, criticising is easy especially when you have many 20year-olds around whispering “2600″-”2600″. Get yourselves in insomnia.gr and start gossiping (litteral translation of “θάβετε με μεγάλο φτυάρι”, burrying people through gossiping with a big shovel)…But it will also bear the seal of GST.

We are everywhere…because unlike you we don’t spend our nights writing songs or “rapping” away in public squares…nor do we laugh at what we cannot touch…

We don’t publicly expose you (translated from “ξεβρακώνουμε”, pulling your underpants down, Greek expression) because we don’t want to see you all running like mad and naked trying to find a hiding place and because we are not like you. You should, however, expect the response when you were laughing at things you had never considered doing…but we have spent enough time dealing with a bunch of schoolkids who learned about hacking through Hollywood movies and their dumb American culture of the neo-geek who reads hacking magazines while trying to crack his girlfriend’s e-mail account to see if she’s being unfaithful and has Linux on dual-boot to pose (translated from “ψαρώνει”, Greek expression) to his mates who also read neo-hacking mania-inspired magazines.

The entire Greek Internet is riddled with holes…some of the biggest government sites don’t even know the term “security”…since they assign the design of their sites to irrelevant companies.

SECURITY IS NOT CONDUCTED BY PAY-OFFS.

We are everywhere…

We salute the real hobbyists and the fanciers of the art of computers. Some old ones who stopped because they were bored and tired not with this art but with the stuck-up attitude (translated from “κόμπλεξ”) of all those “specialists” in the field!! And the young ones who don’t say many words but work with their heads down because what they care about is knowledge, and only knowledge!!

Dear CERN admins we patched the biggest BUG in your webpage so it doesn’t turn into a Dork and gets defaced every day with the silliness of every wannabe hacker.

Don’t try to find us…We will find you…pretty soon!!!

Tnx Mr Server [lxplus.cern.ch]

_Greek Security Team_ - [.GST]

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[Odie]

Nicely done Solaris. Good find. Now we all know these guys had a perfectly legit reason to hack LHC. :)

[Flubug]

Props to Solaris for being able to translate the page. It's very interesting. I've been interested in hackers and their stories since I was 15. That was what inspired me to take up Communications and Networking. I wonder if I'll be as knowledgeable as them.

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