Well, by now you probably presume I’m freaking nuts & or dangerous, or an idiot; possibly all three. Well, thats fine. I will now go on to defending hacking of Hadron Collider. It won’t be a long post, but, hopefully just amusing. Who knows you may just change your views once you get done reading.

Hadron Collider was hacked, for those unaware, I will briefly explain how they got passed security. It was rather simple, exploiting the number one weakness of the network, the human element. Although, the hackers claimed to have found an open-publicly facing website. I think their was much more involved in stealing the credentials, rather than, simple SQL-injection, weak password/user name combo. Then, again maybe it was just that easy. Basically, a large amount of emails went out, that either A)where Phishing B)Concealed malicious code C) Maybe a combination. The team has yet to state how the breach occurred, at least none of the minimal research I’ve done really turned over anything; other than what is found in the news. The only reason I say it was the human element is because, its the easiest route to take, with the minimal amount of effort involved. Sure, they had to get tons of email address, they had to probably spoof tons of headers, all & all it was a lot of public information, that lends itself to full automation.. Maybe, they actually breached the network of the American team (presumably stolen credentials came from an American team with a smaller particle smasher, that could view the results of the ‘Big Bang’ it was going to make.). Maybe, they fire-walked their way to SAM to crack open. I don’t know, but, if it had been the latter, I think red flags would have been raised & the hack unsuccessful to the degree they got in.
Now, did they do the unethical, breaking of their local laws & international laws.. Yes, I’m sure they will face some sort of repercussion for their actions. If I may just get romantic here for a moment. Is it possible that a breach has already happened? Root-kits been placed before this attack? Maybe, some loan hacker or group is just trying to catch a glimpse of what is really happening, see particles smash like never before, maybe they are an amature black-hole physicist. Besides, the implications of him/her not supposed to be their, what they are doing is in fact illegal, is that not more noble than the team that actually did hack it?

I just wanted to throw that idea out there I suppose because, well, I wanted to write something. Don’t worry the next post will actually concern marketing, so if you’ve been coming to this blog for that reason.. I will be releasing some wonderful post here in the future & thank you for your patronage. We look forward to bring you the best damn marketing information, news, etc on the web!

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