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.
Retailers ranging from Target and Walmart to grocers such as Tesco are working aggressively to attract big advertisers to their websites.
The minute you outsource responsibility or governance of information security to a third party, you tie a noose around your neck and hand the end of the rope to a vendor.
FireEye says it has discovered a type of malware designed to steal payment card data that can be very difficult to detect and remove.
Target hired Verizon to figure out what was behind its 2013 data breach and Verizon found that the company’s security problems can be summed up as failure to do the basics.
Target, the nation's second-largest discount chain, is testing beacon technology in 50 of its stores.
The headlines, as ever, were alarming an Android vulnerability that could compromise a phone with nothing more than a malicious text message? With no user input? That's enough to curdle the blood of the hardiest admin.
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.
Samsung and HTC separately launched sales on Friday of three new smartphones that have garnered positive reviews and, by various accounts, some solid initial customer interest.
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Target has agreed to pay US$10 million in a proposed settlement to a class-action lawsuit stemming from its massive 2013 data breach.
A new front has opened up in the Operation Pawn Storm cyber-espionage operation - an iOS app that spies on users, up to and including secretly turning on the phone's microphone to listen in to meetings and conversations.
'Digital business' to disrupt every business leaders day-to-day operations, no matter what the industry - a new style of leadership will be required for local businesses.
Tanner Zagarino is a typical 16-year-old boy. He goes to public high school on Long Island, where he competes for the school wrestling team. He likes clothes and posting selfies with his friends. He jokes around with his mom, who gets roped into those selfies sometimes. He's typical in every way but one: Zagarino rakes in more than $US10,000 a month from social media.
IBM says there's good and bad news when it comes to retail cyber attacks: While overall network assaults are down by 50%, when they hit, cyber-attackers get a ton of data.
Retailers love thinking about how they can use IT analytics of social media to get close to their customers. But when a retailer breaks through the invisible social media wall and reacts to an online post with a very personal in-store interaction, it may not reap the desired increased-sales outcome.