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Small Kansas water utility system hacking highlights risks April 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas utility worker has been charged with remotely tampering with a public water system's cleaning procedures, highlighting the difficulty smaller utilities face in protecting against hackers. Wyatt Travnichek, 22, was charged last month with remotely accessing the Post Rock Rural Water District's systems in March 2019, about two months after he quit his job with the utility. He's accused of shutting down the facility’s cleaning and disinfecting procedures. When...

Two years after a Kansas water facility breach, authorities indicted Wyatt A. Travnichek for the attempted attack.

By Ionut Arghire on April 01, 2021 The United States Department of Justice this week announced official charges against a Kansas man, for accessing and tampering with a public water system. The man, Wyatt A. Travnichek, 22, of Ellsworth County, Kansas, is accused of accessing the computer system of the Ellsworth County Rural Water District without authorization. The intrusion took place on or about March 27, 2019, the Department of Justice says. Once he gained accessed to the protected computer system, Travnichek allegedly performed specific actions that resulted in shutting down processes...

Alicia Boor, K-State Extension Agent The Extension Districts: Cottonwood, Midway, Post Rock, River Valley and Central Kansas along with Kansas State Research and Extension is bringing you a series of short online cattle programs. These programs will be held every Thursday in February at 10:00 am and will cover a different topic every week. The topics and dates for these programs are:  February 4th – Understanding pregnancy loss with Dr. Gregg Hanzlicek.   February 11th – Post-calving nutrition with Dr. Dale Blasi  February 18th – Post-calving health and vaccination with Dr. AJ Tar...

By Alicia Boor, K-State Extension K-State Research and Extension along with Districts, Cottonwood, Golden Prairie, Midway, Phillips/Rooks, Post Rock and Walnut Creek, are hosting one of the annual KSU Winter Ranch Management seminars ONLINE, slated for January 28, starting at 6 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and will highlight several topics important to beef cattle producers.  This program will feature presentations and comments by K-State Research and Extension educators and faculty in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry to enhance management strategies employed by cow-calf producers.  T...