Children have been told for decades not to trust everything they see on a screen; adults today, farmers included, should remember that lesson in their newly online worlds.
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Guarding against misinformation: Do you believe in house hippos?
Children have been told for decades not to trust everything they see on a screen; adults today, farmers included, should remember that lesson in their newly online worlds
Farm risk management includes cybersecurity
Data breaches in agriculture and agri-food sectors require farmers to consider digital defences
Farming involves risk. There’s all manner of weather to deal with, plus shifting markets, crop and animal diseases and unexpected production hurdles. In response, farmers cover their acres with crop insurance, buy policies to protect against livestock price volatility and work feed options into their forage and marketing plans, among other safeguards. But even with
Financial expert to farmers: Stop using cheques
Rising number of financial scams should encourage diligence, two-factor authentication
Glacier FarmMedia – Some producers have lost tens of thousands of dollars to a rising tide of financial fraud, one expert warns, and he wants farmers and agribusiness to protect themselves. “It’s unbelievable the amount of cases that have come through our organization in the last year and a half,” said Jonathan Neutens, head of
The top 10 food stories of 2022
This past year proved interesting to say the least
As a follow-up to a very busy 2021, the year 2022 was filled with food-related stories. Food was top of mind for many for the entire year. Reflecting on the last 12 months is always interesting, come December. As we do every year, Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab presents this year’s top 10 food news
Comment: Rise of precision agriculture exposes food system to new threats
There are pressing reasons to adopt new technology, but real risks too
Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could help increase crop yields and reduce costs, the technology behind the practices is creating opportunities for extremists, terrorists and adversarial governments to attack farming machinery, with the aim of disrupting
Comment: JBS ransomware attack highlights need for new internet
The growing problem points to the need for a new, more secure system
Make no mistake: We are also in the midst of a digital pandemic of ransomware attacks. The recent attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA — the world’s largest meat processor — underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them. What we
Data hackers coming to a farm near you
Recent attacks on computer systems show that agriculture isn’t immune to hackers
Agriculture pays little attention to computer system security, but it will be an increasing threat as farms gets larger, technology use increases and global actors look to disrupt food systems. That means that agriculture is well behind other important sectors of the economy in protecting its computer networks, says a cybersecurity researcher. It’s a reality
Farm groups queried on cybersecurity
Agriculture included as one of 10 sectors under potential threat
Agriculture Canada has sent a questionnaire to agri-food organizations about their cybersecurity protection measures as part of a federal plan to bolster protection for critical national communications infrastructure. The agri-food and fisheries supply chain “is one of the 10 identified critical infrastructure sectors,” a letter explaining the questionnaire says. Among the groups asked to forward
Farmers vulnerable to ‘ransomware’
Precision agriculture makes farmers and the industry vulnerable to cyberattacks
You’re all ready to start the planting season, using all your new precision agriculture tools for optimum seed, fertilizer and chemical placement. But all of a sudden all the data scrambles or disappears, and you receive an email demanding payment to get it back. Far fetched? Maybe not, says the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
