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The family of a 6-year-old boy stabbed to death in a Brooklyn elevator plans a $281 million lawsuit against NYCHA, blaming his murder on its shoddy security.

 

A California bill that would require cellphone makers to install a "kill switch" to render stolen devices inoperable has passed the state legislature.

The Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report, released at Black Hat U.S. examines the “weak links” in organizations that contribute to the increasingly dynamic threat landscape.

A Russian crime ring has stolen 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.

The Department of Transportation wants to formally ban in-flight phone calls. 

A recent study said that almost three-quarters or 70 percent of all Internet of Things (IoT) devices are vulnerable to hacking.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation designed to curb the number of sexual assaults on college campuses.

Two large airline trade groups are suing the TSA over how it collects higher federal security fees on airline tickets.

 The body of a boy of unknown nationality was found in the wheel well of an American C-130 aircraft after it landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. 

International aviation officials agreed to form a task force aimed at better coordinating government security information to prevent another airliner from getting shot down like Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.