As food production moves to automation, is more of the food chain at risk of cyberattacks?
Story Date: 6/8/2021

 

Source: Tyne Morgan, AGWEB, 6/7/21

Not even a month after a cyberattack shut down the Colonial Pipeline in the U.S. another cyberattack came. This time, it had a direct hit on agriculture. “They've just gotten bigger and bolder," says Jason Crabtree, CEO of Qomplx and former advisor to U.S. Army cyber command. JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, was the latest victim of a cyberattack, and one that crippled JBS packing plants across Australia and North America.

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