Cyber attacks behind spate of US navy sea collisions likely, say experts


The damage to the USS John S. McCain's hull after it collided with an oil tanker in Singaporean waters on Monday. – EPA pic, August 23, 2017.

A SPATE of incidents involving US warships in Asia, including a deadly collision this week off Singapore, has forced the navy to consider whether cyber attackers might be to blame.

While some experts believe that being able to engineer such a collision would be unlikely, given the security systems of the US Navy and the logistics of having two ships converge, others say putting the recent incidents down to human error and coincidence is an equally unsatisfactory explanation.


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