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• Retailers set sights on Facebook, Google ad revenue

  Retailers ranging from Target and Walmart to grocers such as Tesco are working aggressively to attract big advertisers to their websites.

• New payment card malware hard to detect and remove

  FireEye says it has discovered a type of malware designed to steal payment card data that can be very difficult to detect and remove.

• In Pictures: Tour Target's new Internet of Things concept store

  The retail giant's connected-home concept store in San Francisco showcases dozens of cool IoT products for the home, but buyers are still on their own.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, March 20

  FTC staff pushed for Google antitrust suit...Target may pay $10 million to breach victims...Tesla update adding self-drive to cars

• US retailer Target to pay $10 million in proposed settlement for 2013 data breach

  Target has agreed to pay US$10 million in a proposed settlement to a class-action lawsuit stemming from its massive 2013 data breach.

• New point-of-sale malware on underground markets for $US2000

  A new kind of point-of-sale malware similar to that which struck Target is being sold in underground markets for $US2000.

• Ransomware takes malware from bad to worse

  Targeted email attacks (called <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608694/phishing/state-of-the-art-spear-phishing-and-defenses.html">spear phishing</a>) with harmful links or attachments containing malware are an ever-increasing threat. These attacks are part social networking and part sophisticated technical effort to penetrate companies' defense systems. Traditional security deployments, in many cases, aren't prepared for these kinds of attacks.

• Obama orders chip-and-PIN in government credit cards

  President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Friday to have secure chip-and-PIN technology embedded into government-issued credit and debit cards as part of a broader move aimed at stemming payment data breaches.

• Auditor: Healthcare.gov still lacks some basic security controls

  Healthcare.gov lacks several basic cybersecurity controls -- including strong passwords and consistent security patching -- nearly a year after the troubled launch of the insurance-shopping website, a government auditor said.

• Apple Pay could put an end to data breaches

  The retail data-breach epidemic highlighted by Target now has other famous victims, including UPS, Home Depot, and Dairy Queen. If you've used a credit card sometime in the past year or two, there's a very good chance your information has been compromised or exposed by at least one of these data breaches. If you use Apple's new Apple Pay system, though, such worries just might be behind you.

• Home Depot investigates possible payment data breach

  Home Depot said Tuesday it was investigating a possible breach of its systems holding customer payment information tied to credit and debit cards.

• Google goes after Amazon with same-day delivery

  Google announced that book buyers in three metropolitan areas in the U.S. will be able to order books from local Barnes & Noble stores and get them delivered the same day with Google Shopping Express, the company's fledgling online shopping and delivery service.

• Israeli security startup firm Hexadite automates cyber incident response

  Technology developed by an Israeli security firm called Hexadite promises to help companies reduce cyber incident response times by automating security breach investigation and remediation.

• US food chain, PF Chang's, investigates possible card breach

  A large batch of stolen credit card numbers for sale on an underground forum may have come from a breach at P.F. Chang's China Bistro, a US restaurant chain that said on Tuesday it is investigating.

• Cisco's Nick Earle: InterCloud via the channel will be the Cloud to rule them all

  Cisco's senior vice-president of global Cloud sales and go to market discusses the company's plan to help push its ambitious new Cloud platform, InterCloud, through the channel.