Supply chain pain may lurk in container crane bill

Legislation proposing strict new prohibitions on the purchase and operation of the world’s most popular container cranes could cause severe disruptions at U.S. ports, according to a maritime cybersecurity expert.

The Port Crane Security and Inspection Act of 2022, introduced last week by Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., bans port cranes sold under contracts with countries considered a U.S. foreign adversary — which includes China, the world’s largest manufacturer of ship-to-shore gantry cranes — from...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/supply-chain-pain-may-lurk-in-container-crane-bill

Cyberattack thwarted at Port Houston

Port Houston was the target of suspected “nation-state” hackers in August, according to officials.

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told a Senate committee on Thursday that hackers had targeted the Texas port.

“We worked with the U.S. Coast Guard on a vulnerability at the Port of Houston and found out about this hack [involving a password-management program],” Easterly said during the “National Cybersecurity Strategy: Protection of Federal and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cyberattack-thwarted-at-port-houston

Coast Guard releases bulletin on SolarWinds hack

Coast Guard Academy cadets test their network connection during the 2012 Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. U.S. Coast Guard photograph

SolarWinds recently reported a compromise of versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1 HF1 of their Orion
Platform by “a highly sophisticated, targeted, and manual supply chain attack by an outside nation
state.”

The Orion Platform is a network management software used by numerous government agencies
and approximately 300,000 additional customers worldwide. It is believed that malicious code was
installed into software updates provided by SolarWinds to the platform’s customers. Once the update
was...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-releases-bulletin-on-solarwinds-hack/

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