Retail Industry Ranked Worst in Website Vulnerability

It's an honor that retail would probably just as soon be bestowed on another industry: Retail was 2011's worst-performing industry in website security, with retail sites suffering an average of 121 serious vulnerabilities each, according to the 12th annual Website Security Statistics Report from WhiteHat Security, released last month. Retail's poor performance is particularly distressing given that across all industries, serious vulnerabilities dropped dramatically in 2011 – from 230 per site in 2010 to just 79 last year. WhiteHat examines over 7,000 websites across 500 organizations to identify "windows of exposure," including serious site vulnerabilities, the length of time