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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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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.

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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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Protect 5G to Secure Sustainable Growth

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The availability of 5G in urban areas presents a revolutionary potential for urban mobility, allowing cities to upgrade and optimize their transport systems. Intelligent agriculture. Intelligent agriculture may play a crucial role in food crop production.