LONDON, SEPT 13
Hackers have claimed they have broken into one of the computer networks of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the 4.4-billion-pound machine designed to expose secrets of cosmos, raising concerns about security of the world's biggest experiment, the media here reported today.
A group calling itself the 'Greek Security Team' posted a webpage warning about weaknesses in the project's infrastructure, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.
It said the hackers mocked the IT used on the project near Geneva and described the technicians handling security as "a bunch of school kids." However, they said they had no intention of disrupting the work of the atom smasher.
"We're pulling your pants down because we don't want to see you running around naked looking to hide yourselves when the panic comes," they wrote in Greek in a note posted on the LHC's network, according to the report.
The hacking attempt started around the time when the giant machine was about to circulate its first particles, the report said.
The hackers gained access to a website open to other scientists on Wednesday as the LHC passed its first test, sending its protons off on their dizzying journey through time and space, close to the speed of light, another daily 'The Times' reported.
"We don't know who they were but there seems to be no harm done. It appears to be people who want to make a point that CERN was hackable," James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Laboratory for Network Collision (CERN), home of the LHC, was quoted as saying.
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