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Manufacturers of industrial and heavy machinery products face several challenges, especially those with multi-year shelf life. These include high quality costs, wastages, inefficiencies on the shop floor, under-utilization of resources, and manual operations. These challenges result in lesser productivity and longer lead times for fulfilling customer demand. Commoditized Make-To-Stock (MTS), as well as bespoke Configure-To-Order (CTO) and Engineer-to-Order (ETO) sectors require multiple ways to boost efficiency across the shop floor, business processes and the product…

For years now, the popularity of online dating has been on the rise—and so have the number of online romance scams that leave people with broken hearts and empty wallets.  According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the reported costs of online romance scams jumped 50% from 2019 to 2020, to the tune of $304 million. And that’s not entirely because 2020 was a pandemic year. From 2016 to 2020, the volume of reported…

For years now, the popularity of online dating has been on the rise—and so have the number of online romance scams that leave people with broken hearts and empty wallets.  According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the reported costs of online romance scams jumped 50% from 2019 to 2020, to the tune of $304 million. And that’s not entirely because 2020 was a pandemic year. From 2016 to 2020, the volume of reported…

A surge in “sophisticated, high impact” ransomware attacks has prompted the United States’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the Australian Cyber Security Center to issue a joint advisory about the techniques being used by cybercriminals to attack businesses and organisations. Reacting to ransomware attacks against a broad range of industry sectors – including defence, financial services, IT, healthcare, education, energy, charities, and local government, the agencies…

A local authority in the UK hit by suspected Russian actors has set aside £380,000 ($514,000) to remediate and recover from the incident, according to reports. Gloucester City Council discovered the breach back in December and warned at the time that it could take up to six months to fix as servers would need rebuilding. However, even the six-figure sum reserved to handle the fall-out of the incident may not be enough, councillors have admitted….