Five last minute retail risk mitigations for Black Friday weekend

Most corporate attacks apparently happen on a Friday, but just imagine how much of a threat is posed to retailers this coming weekend which is topped and tailed by Black Friday and Cyber Monday? News that web application security outfit High-Tech Bridge has notified Zen Cart, one of the largest ecommerce management systems, of a critical flaw that enables the execution of arbitrary code certainly won't help settle rattled nerves. Nor for that matter will the arrival of ModPos , one of the most advanced pieces of card data stealing malware to surface this year. SCMagazineUK.com has been asking industry experts exactly what risks retailers face, and what they can do to mitigate against them even at this late hour of the day...