June 2021 Guest Opinion: Change Management – Guiding Successful Change Amidst Post-Pandemic Uncertainty

June 30, 2021 The Pandemic Accelerated Digital Transformation & Need for Organizational Change Recent studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic propelled digitalization of products, services, and business models. In a recent McKinsey survey, executives reported that the pandemic accelerated use of advanced technologies in operations by 25 times. Other areas, like remote work, by 40…

Nokia deploys private 5G network for KUKA production site in Germany

Nokia is to deploy a private 5G network at industrial robot and automation specialist maker KUKA’s ‘smart’ production and development centre in Augsburg, in Germany. Nokia’s compact ‘digital automation cloud’ (DAC) private LTE and 5G solution, geared for quick-fire local-area deployments, will support product development with immediate effect, a statement said. KUKA is using its…

Hackers Use New Trick to Disable Macro Security Warnings in Malicious Office Files

While it’s a norm for phishing campaigns that distribute weaponized Microsoft Office documents to prompt victims to enable macros in order to trigger the infection chain directly, new findings indicate attackers are using non-malicious documents to disable security warnings prior to executing macro code to infect victims’ computers. In yet another instance of malware authors…