https://www.ttnews.com/articles/trucking-industry-has-become-top-target-ransomware-attacks
By Eric Miller
Staff Reporter
Transport Topics
October 6, 2019
SAN 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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