Brooks Johnson

1 week ago | lakegenevanews.net | Brooks Johnson

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1 week ago | techxplore.com | Brooks Johnson |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin

Hackers infiltrated one grocery distributor, and within days, there were bare shelves at stores around the country and even some pharmacies unable to fill prescriptions. That's not the beginning of some thriller novel. It's the real events that played out earlier this month as major wholesale distributor, UNFI, dealt with a cyberattack. But the moral of the story is already clear: the nation's highly consolidated food supply is in need of stout digital defenses to protect it.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Brooks Johnson

Welcome to "the last bite," an end-of-week food and ag roundup from the Minnesota Star Tribune. Reach out to business reporter Brooks Johnson at [email protected] to share your news and favorite coffee-growing regions. If Bizzy were a brewery, it would be one of Minnesota's largest after producing 113,000 barrels of cold brew coffee last year.

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Brooks Johnson

A former Hormel Foods employee made off with top-secret sausage recipes and market intel before joining regional competitor Johnsonville, a new federal lawsuit alleges. The Austin, Minnesota-based maker of breakfast sausage and more accused Johnsonville and two former Hormel employees of conspiring to "unlawfully obtain Hormel's trade secrets," per the suit. Hormel is asking for the return and deletion of confidential data as well as unspecified monetary damages.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Brooks Johnson

A former Hormel Foods employee made off with top-secret sausage recipes and market intel before joining regional competitor Johnsonville, a new federal lawsuit alleges. The Austin, Minnesota-based maker of breakfast sausage and more accused Johnsonville and two former Hormel employees of conspiring to "unlawfully obtain Hormel's trade secrets," per the suit. Hormel is asking for the return and deletion of confidential data as well as unspecified monetary damages.