The holiday shopping season is just around the corner with retailers planning blockbuster deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Cyber-criminals are expected to try to siphon off some of the money flowing online and in stores for themselves. Experts weigh in on how shoppers can protect their wallets.
With so many major retailers hit by point-of-sale malware over the past year, many consumers may decide to shift the bulk of their holiday shopping to online retailers, said Mark Stanislav, a security researcher at Duo Security. Analysts estimate holiday shoppers will spend over $304 billion online this year, a 15.5 percent increase from 2013.
Online shopping may seem less dangerous than swiping a card at the payment terminals in the store, but "don't be fooled," Stanislav warned. There are risks at both brick-and-mortar stores as well as online.
