Neowin News Feed for: Nuclear

U.S. nuclear weapons department compromised in SharePoint attack

Usama Jawad — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:30:02 +0000

The U.S. Energy Department, responsible for producing and disassembling nuclear weapons, was impacted in the latest attacks on Microsoft SharePoint. Read more...

America's nuclear arsenal is run on an 8-inch floppy disk system from 40 years ago

Jett Goldsmith — Sat, 28 May 2016 01:36:01 +0000

A new report released by the Government Accountability Office says the SACCS - the command system used to operate the US nuclear arsenal - is running on an 8-inch floppy disk system from the 1970s. Read more...

White House confirms cyber-attack on secure network

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:34:05 +0000

The White House has admitted a cyber-attack occurred on Sunday, in which the hackers could have accessed information about the country's nuclear arsenal. China has been suggested as a perpetrator. Read more...

Iranian nuclear program hit by virus, plays AC/DC

Paul Ferson — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:27:02 +0000

Iran's nuclear program has been infected with a new virus which seems to play excellent music at inopportune times, and has spread across two different Iranian facilities already. Read more...

Tiny nuclear battery unveiled by researchers

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:20:53 +0000

Researchers at the University of Missouri have unveiled tiny nuclear batteries that produce power from the decay of radioisotopes. Although such batteries are currently used in devices such as pacemakers and satellites, they are costly,... Read more...

Britain's oldest computer rebooted, first time in decades

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:48:20 +0000

According to the BBC's technology website, Britain's oldest computer, the Harwell, is being reported to be undergoing a reboot for the first time in decades. Plans are being made to transport it to the National... Read more...

Nuclear reactor isn't using a licensed copy of WinCC

Brad Sams — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:23:22 +0000

When building a multi-million dollar nuclear reactor there are few areas that nobody would want to skimp on. When a leak of radiation could effectively kill and make a vast area inhabitable for quite... Read more...

Symantec outgrows underground nuclear bunker

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:59:29 +0000

Symantec has emerged from its bunker in the British countryside, moving its malware-fighting operations from a former U.K. military nuclear shelter to a more conventional office in Reading. The nuclear bunker, with concrete walls and... Read more...