Cyberattack affects 1000 merchant vessels worldwide
A cyberattack on a Norwegian shipping services firm hit about 70 shipping companies.
One of the world’s top ship-classification firms has suffered a massive ransomware cyberattack, according to a report from Bloomberg. The attack was carried out on January 7 and targeted Oslo-based DNV, a comp... Read more
IBM and Maersk pull the plug on blockchain shipping platform
Maersk and IBM plan to take TradeLens offline in the first quarter of 2023. The blockchain platform records the contents, journey and trade of shipping containers. Now, four years after its launch in 2018, the end is in sight.
TradeLens was developed by IBM and GTD Solution, a division of Maer... Read more
Fortinet: shipping industry should hurry with improving cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a basic necessity for every business sector
today. This also applies to the maritime sector. Not only for commercial cargo
shipping, but also for so-called 'superyachts'. Yet, according to Fortinet, the
state of cybersecurity within this sector is quite worrying. New policy
measure... Read more