Maritime Cybersecurity News   by DSLABcompany

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Nagoya port reopens following crippling cyber attack
  Operations at Japan’s busiest port Nagoya resumed this afternoon, local time, after an outage of more than 48 hours, following an alleged Russian ransomware attack. 

The Nagoya Harbor Transportation Association said that Nagoya United Terminal System, which operates the port’s five container terminals, had its operations restored at 7.30am today, but the full recovery of data lost in the cyber attack was achieved only in the afternoon. Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest carmaker, and a major user of the port, said the cyber attack did not affect its car exports and production. The association said its systems were attacked at 6.30am local time on Tuesday.

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Port of Rotterdam says new EU cyber security regs will impact port and other stakeholders
  New European Union regulations will expand the mandate for European companies to establish cyber security plans and will impose penalties in case of non-compliance, according to Marijn van Schoote, Manager, IT Service Management, Operations & Cyber Security, Port of Rotterdam. In an interview with AJOT at the Port of Rotterdam offices on June 19th, van Schoote explained that under current European Union regulations “essential service providers and digital service providers are required to report significant cyber incidents to the national authorities … NIS1 (Network and Information Security Directive I) applies to essential service providers and digital service providers.” Under the new regulations that will be implemented in 2024 known as NIS2, the new regulations “expand the scope to a broader range of organizations, including important providers of online platforms and suppliers of core infrastructure services.” Van Schoote said the new regulations will impact companies with “more than 250 employees, or revenues of over 50 million (Euros) per year.”

  Advances in maritime digitalization and satellite connectivity have brought the maritime industry access to higher bandwidths than ever before, allowing shipping companies to replicate shoreside IT and software set-ups onboard their vessels. The results are being seen in more consistent processes and streamlined IT management.

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Logistics: Ransomware Targets Ports
  Hackers that specialize in ransomware have found that many major cargo container ports have computerized their record keeping. Ports which adopted these software systems find they have a time and cost advantage over ports that still use manual systems. This caused a rush by port operators to adopt the port management software. The benefits of this software were immediately felt. It was now much easier to track the location and progress of individual containers from the container ship to the transportation company that is picking up the container and transporting it by road or rail to the customer.