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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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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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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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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 Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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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.

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Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

Security Affairs

In May 2021, over the Memorial Day weekend, a critical infrastructure entity in the Food and Agricultural Sector suffered a Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware attack affecting U.S. “Threat actors can be present on a victim network long before they lock down a system, alerting the victim to the ransomware attack. Using strong passwords.