Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2019 were lucrative targets for cybercriminals. Researchers recorded a 63 percent malware spike between November 25 to December 2.

Genius, an Android app-based cash register built by French postal service La Poste, leaked more than 23 million records. 

The U.S. Senate passed legislation to formally charter a National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium (NCPC), which includes Norwich University.

As we have done in previous years, the Security magazine team compiled our favorite articles from this year. As we head into 2020, we hope you take a moment to review some of 2019’s top articles about lessons learned, thought leadership, security challenges and good practices.

According to new ISACA research sizing up the tech landscape of the 2020s, the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, automation and humans is expected to create promising opportunities in the tech workforce while simultaneously presenting sobering concerns for the general public. 

A new self-assessment tool is available to 911 authorities and emergency communication centers (ECC) and public safety answering points (PSAP) administrators and oversight personnel. 

Researchers at the University of Birmingham say that they have identified a weakness in Intel’s processors.

Experian^® has released its seventh annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, which predicts the top five threats businesses and consumers should be aware of in order to keep their information safe.  

Research from iovation shows a 29-percent increase in suspected online retail fraud during the start of the 2019 holiday shopping season compared to the same period in 2018, and a 60-percent increase in suspected e-commerce fraud during the same period from 2017 to 2019.

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and 16 senators have reintroduced legislation to protect people’s personal data online.