If you were to predict what the greatest change in business would be in a post-2020 world what would you say? Sure, more people will likely be washing their hands, but in actuality, the shift to remote work fast-tracked the next industrial leap: Industry 4.0.

Before the pandemic, manufacturers were already moving towards smart technology applications, whether through robotics, autonomous vehicles, or Internet of Things (IoT) devices that tie them all together.

Ransomware attacks grew 485% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to Bitdefender’s recently-released “2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report”

According to the report, “Since the world had to adapt to remote work, and staying at home became the new normal, threat actors have also updated their spam-sending tactics by focusing more on delivering seemingly legitimate emails, in an attempt to maximize their chances of infecting users.

Motor vehicle inspections in eight states were stalled after emissions testing company Applus+ Technologies suffered a malware attack which took state systems, including those in Massachusetts and Connecticut, offline.

According to Applus+, “On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, Applus detected and stopped a malware attack which temporarily interrupted the process of conducting vehicle inspections.

Are you waiting for a laptop? When’s the last time you were at COSTCO? Did you notice a lack of cheeses available? Believe it or not, these two things are related and part of the same issue that has come up over the past year.

In ports across the world, shipping containers are stuck waiting to be loaded up or have goods dropped off but are facing continuous bottlenecks.

Now that we are well into 2021, reports have started being published regarding the affect 2020 took on small businesses and the changes they made. According to SCORE, a nonprofit which works with the U.S. Small Business Administration, 90% of small businesses digitized their businesses last year.

Did your business receive a PPP loan in FY2020? You need to know this: as of this writing, lawmakers on Beacon Hill are expected to pass a bill which will extend tax relief to include Massachusetts businesses who received loan forgiveness for Paycheck Protection Program loans.

More employees than ever before are accidently clicking on phishing e-mails, according to Terranova Security, who partnered with Microsoft during 11 days in October to test hundreds of companies in 98 countries in what they call their “Gone Phishing Tournament.

Within days of taking office, the Biden Administration announced a $1.9 Trillion economic stimulus proposal, which includes $10.19 billion earmarked for “IT Modernization and cybersecurity initiatives,” the largest such federal IT infrastructure project ever proposed.

While concerts may be lacking recently, the execs at TicketMaster are being kept busy by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of New York. According to a press release the office posted on their website on Wednesday, Dec. 30, Ticketmaster must pay $10 Million “to resolve charges that it repeatedly accessed without authorization the computer systems of a competitor.

Last year we said goodbye to Windows 7, but this year we say goodbye to something not only older, but something that served as a visual medium for businesses, artists, advertisers, video game developers, and has been used by just about anyone who has had access to the Internet between 1997 and today.