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Trucking Industry Has Become a Top Target of Ransomware Attacks
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:24:01 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/trucking-industry-has-become-top-target-ransomware-attacks By Eric Miller Staff Reporter Transport Topics October 6, 2019SAN DIEGO -- Transportation is now one of the most cyberattacked industries in the United States, which puts trucking in the crosshairs of hackers, a panel of cybersecurity experts said here during American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 6.
“This is why we’re doing a session on cybersecurity,” said Ken Craig, vice president of special projects at McLeod Software, citing data from Forbes that said transportation ranks No. 5 on the list of industries with the most cyberattacks.
“If you take a step back from all of the critical infrastructures such as financial, transportation, medical and so on, transportation moved from No. 10 to No. 2 most-attacked in 2018,” said Sharon Reynolds, chief information security officer for Omnitracs, in reviewing separate cybersecurity data by business sector from IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index.
Reynolds said that small trucking companies tend to be the biggest targets for ransomware attacks because they often don’t have sophisticated protections and, as a result, could be more likely to pay hackers who disable their computer systems. On the other hand, larger trucking companies, which often have more significant protections, can produce a bigger payday for hackers, Reynolds told Transport Topics.
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