An attack against the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has forced the lab to shut off access to the Internet, and the lab s external Web site also is inaccessible right now. The attack on the lab, which conducts national security and cybersecurity research among other things, is the latest in a series of such attacks against research facilities. PNNL is one of 16 national laboratories operated by the Department of Energy, and it is involved in a wide variety of research activities. The most prominent technology to come out of the facility probably is the system used to scan incoming containers at ports of entry in the United States for nuclear and radiological weapons.
Source: https://threatpost.com/attackers-target-pnnl-force-lab-web-070711/75402/