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Cern Website Hacked

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A website associated with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) atom-smashing experiment at Cern has been hacked.

A group of hackers called the GST, or Greek Security Team, has claimed responsibility for the attack. They posted a lengthy message on the site to prove they had breached computer security.

Full story on Computer Weekly.

Some more alarmist reporting of the same incident here with an insider apparently claiming If they had hacked into a second computer network, they could have turned off parts of the vast detector...

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