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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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Hunting the ICEFOG APT group after years of silence

Security Affairs

Slides from my talk presented today at @CONFidenceConf – Into the Fog – The Return of ICEFOG APT. This week, Chi-en (Ashley) Shen presented at the CONFidence cybersecurity conference held in Poland her analysis on new samples of malware associated with the ICEFOG group. Feedbacks and questions are welcome!

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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.

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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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Transforming small farming with open-source, AI-powered connected edge solutions

IBM Big Data Hub

Edge computing is helping to revolutionize agriculture, and the Linux Foundation is at the forefront of this transformation. The next year, Texas A&M AgriLife joined the IBM Sustainability Accelerator , a pro bono social impact program that helps agricultural communities in arid and drought-prone regions in the US.