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Supply chain businesses still unprepared for cyberattacks — survey

Travelers cyber security survey

In July, the FBI sent an alert to trucking companies advising them of the potential for their electronic logging devices to be hacked. While the FBI told FreightWaves the alert was not in response to any specific threat, it did raise alarms in the industry.

How vulnerable to a hack is the transportation industry?

In October 2019, a panel at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition discussed a report that found businesses in the trucking industry and overall supply...

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TV celebrity charged with stealing PPP money on behalf of trucking company

A reality TV star who received over $2 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) money to allegedly pay trucking company employees has been arrested on federal bank fraud charges.

Maurice “Mo” Fayne, known as “Arkansas Mo” and a frequent guest on “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” applied for a PPP loan as the sole owner of a Georgia corporation called Flame Trucking, according to federal authorities in Georgia.

Fayne, 37, made an initial appearance Wednesday before a U.S. magistrate judge.

Fayne’s PPP...

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U.S. Airstrike Kills Terrorist Behind USS Cole Bombing

MV Blue Marlin transporting USS Cole from Yemen following the 2000 attack on the ship. US Navy Photo

A U.S. military airstrike on New Year’s Day reportedly killed Jamal al-Badawi, who helped orchestrate the October 2000 bombing of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67), officials said.


“We are aware of reports that Jamal al-Badawi was killed in a strike in Yemen,” Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in an email to USNI News. “U.S. forces...

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