Nearly 730,000 nonfatal violent crimes and about 1.8 million property crimes were experienced by people age 12 or older with a disability in 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. The violent crimes against people with disabilities included 40,000 rapes or sexual assaults, 116,000 robberies, 115,000 aggravated assaults and nearly 459,000 simple assaults.
A late-night shootout between Border Patrol agents and gunmen in Arizona near the Mexican border left one agent dead and four of the gunmen in custody, and authorities said they were searching today for one man who got away.
For the second time in less than a week, an armed motorcyclist made off with thousands of dollars in casino chips, this time from one of the glitziest resorts on the Las Vegas strip.
ASIS International and BSI released a joint American National Standard,Business Continuity Management Systems: Requirements with Guidance for Use(ANSI/ASIS/BSI BCM.1-2010). The standardprovides auditable criteria with accompanying guidance for developing and implementing a business continuity management system that improves an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disruptive event.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) took a major step toward improving commercial truck and bus safety with the launch of the Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) program.
According to a recent survey, consumers are largely unaware of major security threats at their ATMs – but would switch banks if another institution demonstrated that it provided more secure ATMs.
U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislations in the Congress that is aimed at stopping the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants.
The high-tech features of Super Bowl XLV won't be restricted to Jerry Jones' gargantuan high-definition video board or the special effects in the commercials.
Symantec Corp. announced its security and storage predictions for 2011 based on what its security and storage experts are observing in the information protection landscape
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