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Corruption of government officials is currently Americans’ number one fear, according to a recent survey by researchers at Chapman University.
 

Target has become the first major credit card issuer to convert to cards that contain a PIN.
 

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that will ban the carrying of concealed guns on school and university campuses in the state.

The National Retail Federation said it agreed with a warning from the FBI that new chip-based credit cards are safer than traditional cards but still vulnerable to fraud and need to be used with a PIN to minimize risk.

Eighty-seven percent of frequent flyers think that the Transportation Security Administration is doing either a poor or fair job in performing security screenings at the nation's airports.

Security officers and private investigators would receive a single identification card they could take from job to job under a bill before Ohio lawmakers.

Mastercard is rolling out a biometrics payments service that will kill passwords within five years.

According to the LexisNexis® True Cost of Fraud study, merchants are overwhelmed by increasing revenue losses to fraud.

Former police official George Anderson has been tapped to oversee security at the World Trade Center.

A report from the think tank Chatham House said that nuclear power plants around the globe are vulnerable to cyberattacks and that the risk of cyber-oriented plant disasters is increasing.