Hacking attacks on ports among new security threats, conference told

Data protection event hears organisations must be ready for new EU rules in 2018
Elaine Edwards

There has been an increase in hacking attacks on ports by criminals such as drug traffickers, a conference in Dublin has heard.

A security expert told the annual data protection conference organised by the Irish Computer Society and the Association of Data Protection Officers that traffickers are hacking ports to mark certain shipments as checked when they had not been.

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Source: irishtimes.com

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