In February 2019, a large container ship sailing for New York identified a cyber intrusion on board that startled the U.S. Coast Guard. Though the malware attack never controlled the vessel's movement.
In February 2019, a large container ship sailing for New York identified a cyberintrusion on board that startled the US Coast Guard. Although the malware attack never controlled the vessel’s movement, authorities concluded that weak defenses exposed critical functions to “significant vulnerabilities.”
A maritime disaster did not happen that day, but a warning flare rose over an emerging threat to global trade: cyberpiracy able to penetrate on-board technology that is replacing old ways of steering, propulsion, navigation and other key operations.
Such leaps in hacking capabilities could do enormous economic damage, particularly now, when supply chains are stressed from the COVID-19
In February 2019, a large container ship sailing for New York identified a cyber intrusion on board that startled the US Coast Guard. Though the malware
In February 2019, a large container ship sailing for New York identified a cyber intrusion on board that startled the US Coast Guard. Though the malware attack never controlled the vessel’s movement, authorities concluded that weak defenses exposed critical functions to “significant vulnerabilities”.