Tag: cyber security

A shipping company with offices in Limassol says its computer systems have on two occasions been hacked and over half a million dollars stolen.

BSEE and USCG officials met at BSEE headquarters here to discuss cyber risk management

The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) issued its latest edition of the informative "IUMI Eye" including abstract from Nick Gooding's speech (FCII, IUMI Alternate Officer at the IMO) on cyber security presented at the Insurance Sweden Conference on 6 May 2015, in Stockholm.

Ensuring the security of the nation's Maritime Transportation System The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, released the service's cyber strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to ensure the prosperity and security of the nation's Maritime Transportation System (MTS) in the face of a rapidly evolving cyber domain. "While cyber certainly poses a number of unique risks and challenges," said the commandant. "I am confident that we can meet them in a way that benefits the marine industry, protects privacy and maintains the safety and security of our maritime environment." Cyberspace is an operational domain that integrates information and intelligence in support of Coast Guard operations. The rapid development of digital technologies has led to unprecedented efficiencies, but it has also come with serious risks. The Coast Guard's cyber strategy is a comprehensive framework that identifies three strategic priorities critical to the service's effort defending the maritime domain: Defend cyberspace - Ensure the full scope of the Coast Guard's capabilities are effective and efficient by building and maintaining secure and resilient Coast Guard information networks; Enable operations - Detect, deter, disable and defeat adversaries by developing and leveraging a diverse set of ...

Gas and low-flashpoint fuels code adopted by IMO The new mandatory code for ships fuelled by gases or other low-flashpoint fuels was adopted by IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), when it met at the Organization's London headquarters for its 95th session from 3 to 12 June 2015. The Committee also placed unsafe mixed migration by sea on its agenda and considered cyber security matters and passenger ship safety. It adopted new ships' routeing measures and a number of circulars arising from items put forward by the sub-committees.IGF Code adoptedThe MSC adopted the International Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low-flashpoint Fuels (IGF Code), along with amendments to make the Code mandatory under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).The use of gas as fuel, particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG), has increased in recent years due to lower sulphur and particulate emissions than fuel oil or marine diesel oil. But gas and other low-flashpoint fuels pose their own set of safety challenges, which need to be properly managed. The IGF Code aims to minimize the risk to the ship, its crew and the environment, having regard to the nature of the fuels involved.The amendments ...

A new R&D project has been launched to help deliver training tools and techniques and further equip security personnel

Plenty of phish in the sea, warns ESC Global Security Advancement in broadband technologies and the move towards Big Data' will leave the maritime industry vulnerable to cyber-crime unless it develops a better awareness of ICT security and adopts security best practice, warns ESC Global Security's head of cyber security division, Joseph Carson."There is the potential for a major cyber-attack on the maritime industry to significantly disrupt food and energy supplies given that shipping transports 90% of the world's global trade. Certainly there is the possibility for AIS, GNSS, ENC and ECDIS charts to disappear from bridge screens or be modified, but the issue today is that most adversaries want to obtain data for financial gain or criminal activities."He says that payment systems, for example, can be easily attacked using phishing scams to raise fake invoices or even to change shipping manifests in order to transport illicit goods, drugs and weapons.Echoing comments made by World Economic Forum managing director Espen Barth Eide at Nor-Shipping last week, that "every conflict we see in the future will be a cyber-conflict," Carson says that while the threat is indeed a real one, greater computer literacy and security awareness can reduce the risk of ...

   Business leaders and experts from across the global maritime community met at Nor-Shipping Conference to focus on the future of shipping – the industry that holds world trade together. Delegates turned up to listen to the hard-hitting discussions that looked to, among other things, innovation, investment and transformative technology. Global geopolitical and economic scenarios were also debated. After the attendees stood up to welcome His Majesty King Harald V of Norway, they were treated to a short piece of music by acclaimed violinist Charlie Siem, son of Norwegian shipping magnate Kristian Siem. Sturla Henriksen, CEO of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, then welcomed delegates with an inspiring speech on the shipping industry, which he said “contributes vitally to global economic growth and prosperity.” “This industry is key to a sustainable global economic welfare. Carrying 90% of world trade, it represents less than 3% of global CO2 emissions. That makes this industry the most environmentally friendly mode of transportation. So shipping is part of the solution.” New Norwegian maritime strategyIn her opening address, Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg referred to her government’s newly announced national maritime strategy, saying that the the Norwegian government wanted to establish a forward-looking framework for the ...

New technologies have opened up new opportunities for the criminals; shipping is now entering the age of cyber crime