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How Kubota is changing the status quo in agriculture and sustainability with technology

IBM Big Data Hub

Kubota, a Japanese-based services and technology provider within the agriculture, water and environmental industries, has a keen focus on innovation and sustainability. IBM deployed IBM® Maximo® Application Suite, which runs on Microsoft Cloud. The result?

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FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector

Security Affairs

FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. Food and agriculture businesses victimized by ransomware suffer significant financial loss resulting from ransom payments, loss of productivity, and remediation costs.” hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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Seeds of Destruction: Cyber Risk Is Growing in Agriculture

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#213): Molly Jahn of DARPA and University of Wisconsin joins us to talk about the growing cyber risk to the Food and Agriculture sector, as industry consolidation and precision agriculture combine to increase the chances of cyber disruption of food production. Read the whole entry. »

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Empowering farmers across the digital divide in Malawi with OpenHarvest

IBM Big Data Hub

As a result, over 80% of the population is employed in agriculture, and their livelihood revolves around alternating rainy and dry seasons that dictate how the year’s planting, growing and harvesting will unfold. Though the economy relies on agriculture, farmers have limited access to affordable credit or competitive markets.

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Episode 242: Hacking the Farm (and John Deere) with Sick Codes

The Security Ledger

But behind all the fun and games are some serious questions: about the security of precision agricultural equipment that can be remotely controlled from the cloud, and about the Orwellian conditions suffered by many farmers who find themselves locked out of and unable to fix their own equipment when it breaks.

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REvil Ransomware Gang Starts Auctioning Victim Data

Krebs on Security

. “ Sodin ” and “ Sodinokibi “) used their Dark Web “Happy Blog” to announce its first ever stolen data auction, allegedly selling files taken from a Canadian agricultural production company that REvil says has so far declined its extortion demands.

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IBM and Texas A&M AgriLife provide data, technology and expertise to farmers in need

IBM Big Data Hub

With failed crops, low yields for farmers and diminished grazing for cattle, the Texas Department of Agriculture identified climate change as a potential threat to the state’s food supply. ” That’s where digital agriculture comes in. In Texas, 2022 was one of the driest years on record.