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Transforming sustainable agriculture: The Nature Conservancy Centre and IBM unite to reduce crop residue burning in North India

IBM Big Data Hub

CRM Connect, championed by TNC – The Nature Conservancy Centre (TNCC), India, offers valuable intelligence to farmers, agriculture sector leaders, and decision makers. Promoting sustainable agriculture in India In North India, not too far from the Himalayas, is Punjab. With an area of only 1.5%

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

Security Affairs

” Clearly, the FBI and CISA focus on attacks against organizations in the United States, they proposed as case studies the attacks against Colonial Pipeline , JBS , and Kaseya. and Australian meat production facilities, resulting in a complete production stoppage.

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Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity

The Security Ledger

US healthcare organizations should make a study of the HSE hack from last year and take steps to prevent a similar type of attack from occurring at their facilities. . Episode 218: Denial of Sustenance Attacks -The Cyber Risk To Agriculture. concludes just the opposite.

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Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

Related Stories DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity Episode 234: Rep. Growing Threats to agriculture. DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies. It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001.

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Botany: one of FSU’s longest taught subjects

Archives Blogs

The Primitive and Botanical Order of Ronales was founded by Dr. Hurman Kurz who was known for his studies of traditional Native American ways of identifying and distinguishing flora and fauna. Students studying cacti in a greenshouse, circa 1950s. Botany Field Trip, circa 1920s. View object in the digital library here.

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CILIP?s first Thai accreditation at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

CILIP

The Master of Arts in Information Studies (in English) and the Bachelor of Arts in Information Studies (in Thai) have gained formal CILIP accreditation following the institution?s CU is composed of nineteen faculties, a School of Agriculture, three colleges, ten institutes and two other schools all in Bangkok.