[Lilug-si-sig] Sea pirates hack, exfiltrate shipping company schedules, bills of lading

[Bart Mallio]

?Ever read William Gibson's _Spook Country_?  There are parallels with his novel.


Bartholomew R. Mallio, CISSP
Information Security Intelligence Analyst
The Rockefeller University
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Subject: [Lilug-si-sig] Sea pirates hack, exfiltrate shipping company schedules, bills of lading

"The shipping company was telling Verizon that pirates were boarding their vessels at regular intervals, equipped with a barcode reader (and weapons of course), searching specific crates, emptying all the high-value cargo, and making off with the loot within minutes of launching their attacks."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/sea-pirates-hacked-shipping-company-to-find-valuable-cargo-501268.shtml
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