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On Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments in the challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto-Bayer’s flagship Roundup weedkiller.  Glyphosate is down but not out after last year when California’s highest Court upheld an $86.2 million award…

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…

A Chinese scientist who pleaded guilty to U.S. economic espionage charges on Thursday was recruited by the Chinese government as part of a foreign spying program that recruited people with access to foreign trade secrets and technology sought by Beijing. Xiang Haitao, a former scientist with Monsanto, and permanent U.S.…

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…

Greenhouses seen at the headquarters of the Monsanto Company, in St. Louis, Missouri.Daniel Dreifuss/picture alliance via Getty Images Xiang Haitao, 44, worked for Monsanto in Missouri from 2008 to 2017. The DOJ said he stole a secret algorithm before leaving and planned to pass it to China. The US identified…

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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…

Logo of Bayer AG is pictured at the annual results news conference of the German drugmaker in Leverkusen, Germany February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay Nov 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Wednesday ordered Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) to pay $62 million to students and others who say they were exposed…

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…

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…