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FBI Warns Ag Cooperatives About Possible Cyberattacks
FBI Warns Ag Cooperatives About Possible Cyberattacks
FBI Warns Ag Cooperatives About Possible Cyberattacks
The FBI’s cyber division is warning agricultural cooperatives across the country to be wary of possible cyberattacks. The division wants cooperatives to take all possible precautions to keep their operations safe. The FBI says ransomware attacks typically happen on ag cooperatives during the critical planting and harvest seasons. ...
Vilsack Ag Community Must Be Prepared For Cyberattacks
Vilsack Ag Community Must Be Prepared For Cyberattacks
Vilsack Ag Community Must Be Prepared For Cyberattacks
Ransomware attacks have become a part of everyday life, for small business and large businesses alike, and that includes major Ag and food interests like JBS. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack warns that Agriculture must be prepared. JBS reportedly paid $11 million in ransom to hackers, just weeks after Colonial Pipeline paid $4 million ...
USDA Stepping Up Cybersecurity
USDA Stepping Up Cybersecurity
USDA Stepping Up Cybersecurity
With cyberattacks against JBS and Colonial pipeline in the news, USDA is stepping up its data security efforts. "We are having conversations, I just had one yesterday about how we are going to ensure that we have a strong system within USDA that we can bolster the capacity to make our systems strong," noted Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh ...
Scott Wants To Know Who Is Responsible For JBS Attack
Scott Wants To Know Who Is Responsible For JBS Attack
Scott Wants To Know Who Is Responsible For JBS Attack
The FBI is investigating, and the Chair of the House Agriculture Committee wants to know if Russia was behind the recent ransomware attack on JBS USA. Chairman David Scott said the “cowardly hacking” of critical U.S. “food, energy, and financial systems must be stopped,” and Russia must be held “accountable” if it’s somehow involved. While the House Ag Committee Chairman h ...
Cyberattacks A Focus Of Ag Industry Following JBS Attack
Cyberattacks A Focus Of Ag Industry Following JBS Attack
Cyberattacks A Focus Of Ag Industry Following JBS Attack
This week’s ransomware attack on JBS, the world’s largest meat supplier, has refocused agriculture’s attention on cybersecurity and again raised key economic issues for the Ag and food industries. USDA has contacted several major meat processors, the FBI is investigating, and President Biden has launched a “rapid strategic review.” American Farm Bureau ...
JBS Targeted By Cyber Hackers
JBS Targeted By Cyber Hackers
JBS Targeted By Cyber Hackers
Over the weekend, one of the world’s largest meatpackers announced it had been hit by a cyber-attack. JBS announced Sunday some of the servers supporting its North American and Australian IT systems were targeted. Scott Bennett, director of congressional relations with the American Farm Bureau Federation said the company responded immediately. ...