Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider
Posted by admin on September 12th, 2008 filed in Cyber Terrorism, hackingThe Large Hadron Collider is a controversial international research/science project. A (group of) hacker(s) decided to hack into the system… The following is a quote from the article..
Scientists working at Cern, the organisation that runs the vast smasher, were worried about what the hackers could do because they were “one step away” from the computer control system of one of the huge detectors of the machine, a vast magnet that weighs 12,500 tons, measuring around 21 metres in length and 15 metres wide/high.
If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector and, said the insider, “it is hard enough to make these things work if no one is messing with it.”
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