Secure Critical Infrastructure Top of Mind for U.S.
Attacks targeting critical infrastructure system are ramping up – and defense has become a top priority for the U.S. government. Continue reading Secure Critical Infrastructure Top of Mind for U.S.
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Hacking campaign on nuclear, defense sectors shares Lazarus Group tools, report says
Hackers behind a new campaign of cyberattacks that have targeted international critical infrastructure facilities are using malicious code linked to North Korea, according to research published Wednesday. Researchers from McAfee said “Operation Sharpshooter” has numerous technical links to the Lazarus Group, the group of suspected North Korean government hackers blamed for the 2014 breach at Sony Pictures and other well-publicized attacks. Operation Sharpshooter used a hacking tool called “Rising Sun” to target 87 organizations, mostly in the U.S., between October and November of this year, McAfee said. The cybersecurity vendor did not flatly tie this campaign to the North Korean government. “Attributing an attack to any threat group is often riddled with challenges, including potential ‘false flag’ operations by other threat actors,” the research states. “Technical evidence alone is not sufficient to attribute this activity with high confidence. However, based on our analysis, this operation shares multiple striking similarities with […]
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Fail of the Week: A Candle Caused Browns Ferry Nuclear Incident
A colleague of mine used to say he juggled a lot of balls; steel balls, plastic balls, glass balls, and paper balls. The trick was not to drop the glass balls. How do you know which is which? For example, suppose you were tasked with making sure a nuclear power plant was safe. What would be important? A fail-safe way to drop the control rods into the pile, maybe? A thick containment wall? Two loops of cooling so that only the inner loop gets radioactive? I’m not a nuclear engineer, so I don’t know, but ensuring electricians at a nuclear …read more
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Fail of the Week: A Candle Caused Browns Ferry Nuclear Incident
A colleague of mine used to say he juggled a lot of balls; steel balls, plastic balls, glass balls, and paper balls. The trick was not to drop the glass balls. How do you know which is which? For example, suppose you were tasked with making sure a nuclear power plant was safe. What would be important? A fail-safe way to drop the control rods into the pile, maybe? A thick containment wall? Two loops of cooling so that only the inner loop gets radioactive? I’m not a nuclear engineer, so I don’t know, but ensuring electricians at a nuclear …read more
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Pence Says Nukes in Space Is the ‘President’s Determination’
In a conversation with the Washington Post’s Robert Costa, Pence did not rule out the eventual storage or use of nuclear weapons in space, and said that the decision to bring nuclear weapons to space is up to President Trump. Continue reading Pence Says Nukes in Space Is the ‘President’s Determination’
‘We Were Guinea Pigs’: Soldiers Explain What Nuclear Bomb Blasts Feel Like
“It was as if someone my size had caught fire and walked through me.” Continue reading ‘We Were Guinea Pigs’: Soldiers Explain What Nuclear Bomb Blasts Feel Like
Project Orion: Detonating Nuclear Bombs For Thrust
Rockets with nuclear bombs for propulsion sounds like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon, but it has been seriously considered as an option for the space program. Chemical rockets combust a fuel with an oxidizer within themselves and exhaust the result out the back, causing the rocket to move in the opposite direction. What if instead, you used the higher energy density of nuclear fission by detonating nuclear bombs?
Detonating the bombs within a combustion chamber would destroy the vehicle so instead you’d do so from outside and behind. Each bomb would include a little propellant which would be thrown as …read more
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Here Are More Than 250 Newly Released Videos of Nuclear Bomb Blasts
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is preserving decades-old test videos of the weapon that changed everything. Continue reading Here Are More Than 250 Newly Released Videos of Nuclear Bomb Blasts
Nuclear Experts: Leaving the Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Is a Crisis of Trump’s Own Making’
Should the deal remain intact, the lack of a US presence in the joint commission will make it hard to enforce or change its provisions. Continue reading Nuclear Experts: Leaving the Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Is a Crisis of Trump’s Own Making’
Nuclear Power Plants Have a ‘Blind Spot’ for Hackers. Here’s How to Fix That.
Malware hunters, regulators, and plant employees are hunting further down the supply chain for vulnerabilities as hackers continue to target critical infrastructure. Continue reading Nuclear Power Plants Have a ‘Blind Spot’ for Hackers. Here’s How to Fix That.