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recent bookmarks from jmAll at sea: global shipping fleet exposed to hacking threat | Reuters2014-04-24T15:34:28+00:00
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/23/tech-cybersecurity-shipping-idUSL3N0N402020140423
jmHackers recently shut down a floating oil rig by tilting it, while another rig was so riddled with computer malware that it took 19 days to make it seaworthy again; Somali pirates help choose their targets by viewing navigational data online, prompting ships to either turn off their navigational devices, or fake the data so it looks like they're somewhere else; and hackers infiltrated computers connected to the Belgian port of Antwerp, located specific containers, made off with their smuggled drugs and deleted the records.
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