Articles Tagged with ''airport security''

Airline and airport workers (and vendors) require access to sensitive and restricted areas during the normal course of their required duties.

A federal judge has ruled that DHS must release two safety reports it conducted in the 2000s evaluating the radiation safety of body-scanning machines.

An undercover agent with a fake explosive device in his pants was able to pass through two security checkpoints at the Newark, New Jersey airport, says a New York Post report.

A group of thieves took only 11 minutes to escape an airport with hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of diamonds and precious metals.

286 flights have been canceled out of Hamburg and Duesseldorf airports, affecting thousands of passengers, in an attempt to force airport administration to present a "negotiable" offer. 

Canines trained to detect explosives on people in high-risk airports are instead being used to screen cargo, in some cases, the GAO reports. 

HartsfieldJackson International Airport once again leads the nation in the number of guns confiscated at security checkpoints.

Software to redesign the scanned images was not completed on deadline, so the TSA is removing nearly 175 body scanners from U.S. airports. 

People have always tried to get some interesting items past the TSA inspectors at U.S. airports, but 2012 brought some truly extreme items.

Atlanta HartsfieldJackson International Airport once again leads the nation in the number of guns confiscated at security checkpoints.