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The US Senate rejected an amendment that would have blocked Transportation Security Administration employees from having collective-bargaining rights.

Security and other staff at all NASCAR track facilities will participate in the First Observer™ parking-specific, anti-terrorism training program that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration developed in partnership with the International Parking Institute.

Two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents were shot in Mexico this afternoon.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano joined National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern to announce a new partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "If You See Something, Say Something™" public awareness campaign and the NBA—an effort that will help ensure the security of fans, players and employees by encouraging fans to identify and report suspicious activity.

Gary Hall will join Wells Financial Holdings Limited in March 2011 and will be responsible for supervising the firm’s different business units, the company announced.

Members of the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) invite retailers and solutions providers to join its Benefit Denial Working Group (BDWG) to develop and test product protection solutions.

IT security staff at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) spend 127 hours every month managing their on-premises security infrastructure, according to a new survey by Webroot.

Existing Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards are effective and should be made permanent, NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, said in written testimony submitted to a congressional panel.

A new survey from Norton by Symantec reveals that 36 percent of consumers in the U.S. have fallen victim to cell phone loss or theft.

A proposal offered in the Senate would make misusing body scanner images a federal crime, punishable by up to a year in prison.