Articles Tagged with ''airport security''

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

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

Security guards at John F. Kennedy Airport are threatening to walk off the job this month.

After a loss of TSA funding, the $44-per-hour police service proved too expensive for the airport.

Thieves stole 3,600 new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from a cargo building at JFK airport.

The barcode on expedited screening system PreCheck's boarding passes is unencrypted, allowing tech-savvy travelers to decode which security screening they are subject to.

New TSA historian Michael Smith has worked for two years to compile artifacts and oral histories pertaining to the origin, history and mission of the Transportation Security Administration. 

The Transportation Security Administration is revealing the airports where nearly 400 fired TSA employees worked.

Let’s start with the basics: the reason we take off our shoes at the airport is because the shoe bomber tried to get a bomb on a plane. The reason we can only carry on 3-ounce bottles? Someone tried to get a liquid bomb on a plane. Body scanners? Underwear bomber. But what if we took a look at suspicious behavior of the people attempting these acts of terrorism instead of relying primarily on machines to do our dirty work?