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• Google opens Sydney cloud region

  Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure now have a new competitor in Australia – a ‘three zone’ Google Cloud Platform region in Sydney has finally landed.

• ​Google wheels out big name customers at San Fran gabfest

  Google recruited several big name customers including international bank, HSBC, to discuss their cloud implementations at its annual San Francisco gabfest as the Silicon Valley giant looks to convince enterprises to shift their core systems to its cloud platform.

• Why you're not investing enough in IT security

  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.​

• 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.

• Anthem hack: Personal data stolen sells for 10X price of stolen credit card numbers

  The hackers who stole personal data from health insurer Anthem stand to make a whole lot more than the ones who stole 56 million credit and debit card numbers from Home Depot because the potential payback per identity is so much greater.

• What is home automation and how do I get started?

  From flicking a light switch to opening your garage door with a remote control, our homes have been automated for decades. The concept goes as far back as the 1934 World's Fair in Chicago where the "home of the future" was unveiled. In the last 80 years, however, the automated home has morphed into the smart home, courtesy of the Internet, sensors and connectivity. The modern automated home can do more than turn on our heating and our lights--it can actually think for us.

• IBM: Retail attacks down, but when they hit cyber-attackers get more

  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.

• 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.

• Home Depot spent $43 million on data breach in just one quarter

  Home Depot spent US$43 million in its third quarter dealing with the fallout of one of the largest ever data breaches, highlighting the costly nature of security failures.

• US chain Home Depot says attackers stole a vendor's credentials to break in

  Home Depot has shed more light on a recent data breach that compromised 56 million payment cards, saying hackers used login credentials belonging to another company to access its network. It also revealed that 53 million email addresses were also stolen.

• Power Tools Company Uses Marketing Analytics to Compete With Big Box Stores

  If you're in the market for a chain saw or a leaf blower, you might consider a product from Stihl. But you won't find the company's products at Home Depot or Lowe's. Stihl operates an independent dealer-only retail distribution program that its leaders say is instrumental in helping the company dominate the gasoline-powered outdoor tool category.

• PCI Compliance Under Scrutiny Following Big Data Breaches

  As details filter out about the Home Depot hack (and many, many more data breaches), you can't help but ask: How did this happen -- especially when the company was supposed to adhere to specific safety regulations or else lose its capability to process credit card transactions?

• 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.

• Likes of Apple Pay may make smaller banks more vulnerable

  Many banks with less than $50 billion in assets have a problem that payment systems like Apple Pay will make even more attractive to exploit, a team of security researchers says.

• Home Depot breach put 56 million payment cards at risk, company says

  The breach of Home Depot's payment systems may have compromised 56 million payment cards as a result of malware that has since been eliminated, the company said Thursday.