Agriculture is unique in numerous ways. So many people depend on so few, each farm feeds 166 people on average. Farmers are scientists. They pay close attention to the weather, to the health of their soils and importantly, genetics. The genetical make up of crops...
Life on the farm isn’t what it used to be. With overall cyberattacks on the rise, even agriculture has found itself in the crosshairs of cyber threat actors. In fact, during the last ten months alone, the CrowdStrike® Falcon OverWatchTM team has observed a tenfold...
Money is to us as water is to a fish. It is no wonder that financial gain is the overwhelming motivation for cybercriminals. The ease in which they can penetrate our networks and hold our crown jewels hostage gives them the incentive to work harder...
Farming is hard. Inputs, weather, markets, machinery, labor, and the list goes on. A farmer once told me that every day is a gamble. Why farm then? It is rewarding, if the variables are favorable, the payoff can be solid. And people gotta eat. Each...
A US farm lost a whopping $9 million due to a temporary shutdown of its farming operations following a ransomware attack earlier this year, the FBI said this week....
Cyber Criminal Actors Targeting the Foodand Agriculture Sector with RansomwareAttacks...
Meat firm JBS says it paid out $11m after attack | ZDNet Decision was made to prevent any risk to customers, company said....
The National AgTech Forum is a collaborative event series offered by AgLaunch, AgStart and NCBiotech. These monthly events feature a panel of experts sharing information and differing perspectives on key topics relevant to the ag tech industry. August's event, hosted by NCBiotech, will focus on...
Agribusiness may not be an industry that the public at large often associates with data breaches and hacking, but whatever the perception may be, the agricultural sector of the American economy is increasingly a ripe target for malicious foreign actors, digital fraud, and other perpetrators...
A demonstration of glaring flaws in software by John Deere at DEF CON raises the specter of remote cyber attacks that could cripple US food production....
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