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Cyber Security Today, Jan 10, 2022 – Beware of unexpected USB keys in the mail, FlexBooker admits data theft and more

Beware of unexpected USB keys in the mail, FlexBooker admits data theft and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday January 19th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing writer on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. The group behind the Darkside and BlackMatter ransomware malware is mailing infected USB keys to American organizations. According…
bubmag
January 10, 2022
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Scientist ‘steals’ trade secrets for China

WASHINGTON, DC: A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Thursday (Friday in Manila) to conspiring to steal a trade secret from American agribusiness giant Monsanto, the Justice Department said. Xiang Haitao, 44, was employed as an imaging scientist by Monsanto and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017, the…
bubmag
January 7, 2022
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Couple’s $86M reward in Monsanto pesticide case stands

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Monsanto Co.'s to $86.2 million in damages to a couple who developed cancer after spraying the company's Roundup weed-killer in their yards for three decades. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge…
bubmag
November 18, 2021
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Upstart Corn Activists in Mexico Just Beat GMO Goliath Bayer-Monsanto

A protestor shows the variety of Mexican corn during a protest against GMO corn. Photo by Jesus Alvarado/picture alliance via Getty Images. MEXICO CITY—In a real-life David versus Goliath moment, a small group of Mexican activists just won a major battle in a longstanding legal dispute with big farming monolith…
bubmag
October 20, 2021
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The Radicalization of Clarence Thomas

In 1992, an electrician named Robert Joiner sued Monsanto, the immense and powerful agrochemical corporation that had, for many years, manufactured the toxic chemical compounds polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. For more than a decade, Joiner had worked in a Georgia utilities plant, which used dielectric fluid containing PCBs as a…
bubmag
August 17, 2021