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Flaws in John Deere Systems Show Agriculture's Cyber Risk

Data Breach Today

John Deere claims the issues would not affect machines in use, but a researcher who presented at the Def Con security conference on Sunday disagrees.

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UPDATE DEF CON DOOM Patrol: Deere Jailbreak Raises Questions on Security, Competition

The Security Ledger

A researcher presented the results of a year-long effort to reverse engineer John Deere hardware to run a version of the DOOM first person shooter. He also discovered a number of security flaws along the way. Read the whole entry. » Read the whole entry. »

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DEF CON DOOM Patrol: Deere Jailbreak Raises Questions on Security, Competition

The Security Ledger

A researcher presented the results of a year-long effort to reverse engineer John Deere hardware to run a version of the DOOM first person shooter. He also discovered a number of security flaws along the way. Read the whole entry. » Read the whole entry. »

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

The Security Ledger

In our latest podcast, Paul caught up with Sick Codes (@sickcodes) to talk about his now-legendary presentation at the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas, in which he demonstrated a hack that ran the Doom first person shooter on a John Deere 4240 touch-screen monitor. Paul with Sick Codes following his presentation at DEF CON 30.

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The U.S. Forest Service Presents: Winter Olympics

Unwritten Record

The film Winter Olympics is from Record Group 16: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture and was produced by the Department of Agriculture to document the contributions of the U.S. Forest Service (an agency of the Department of Agriculture) to the Olympics. ” Clip taken from 16-P-1486, Winter Olympics.

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Aunt Sammy and Her Radio Recipes

Unwritten Record

Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Home Economics and Farm Radio Service. The show was presented in 3 segments of 5 minutes each: “Backyard Gossip,” “Questions Women are Asking,” and “What Shall We Have For Dinner?” “Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes” 1927 ( NAID 5710000 ).

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

From the conclusion: The result of performing that operation on the series of cumulated benefits extrapolated for the 169 survey respondents finds that present value of benefits from today's perspective is approximately $8.9 On the other hand, the present value of NIST's costs from today's perspective is $127 million.