A look inside the Chinese cyber threat at the biggest ports in US

• 80% of the “ship-to-shore” cranes moving trade at U.S. ports are made in China and that the U.S. government has claimed in recent testimony “use Chinese software.”
• But port executives interviewed by CNBC say that operating software on these cranes comes from Germany, Japan and other countries outside the People’s Republic of China.
• More than half of the roughly 200 Chinese cranes at U.S. ports have been inspected by U.S. Coast Guard, with Rear Adm. Jay Vann, commander of Coast Guard’s Cyber Command, saying the equipment could be “vulnerable to exploitation.”

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