Fear, fake news and cyber hype

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By Alex Lennane

21/12/2017

Following on from an article in The Loadstar, debunking the ‘fake news’ that told the industry that a containership could effectively be sunk through hacking, comes another important fact check from Splash. An article in Safety at Sea suggests a containership’s navigation system was taken under full control by hackers. But the writer, a ‘ship driver’ who spent several days on research, discovered that it simply wasn’t true. And he warns shipowners of the perils of snake oil salesmen.

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