CERN Website Defaced

Remember the Large Hadron Collider? It was earlier thought by some loonies that turning this on will disrupt the space-time-continuum, or whatever scientific thingamajig that was, and will result in a black hole ripping through earth and causing all life to disintegrate past its event horizon. Well it turns out the whole end-of-days cataclysm scenario was a dud.

Now guess what? Some so-called GST (Greek Security Team) hackers defaced CERN's website (CERN operates the LHC). Gizmodo reported that the hackers got in so deep, say reports, that they were "one step away" from cracking into the computer control system of one of the LHC's "detectors."

I've still to see the mirror of the defaced page in Zone-H but I guess score one for the hackers this round. I wonder what vulnerability these boys exploited to compromise the server hosting the website. I'm keeping eye on this.