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An independent security expert says that the NSA could turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and use radar wave devices to harvest electronic information from computer even if they weren't online.

In 2014, McAfee Labs expects that Ransomware will proliferate on mobile devices, attacks using advanced evasion techniques will come of age, and social platforms will be used more aggressively to target the finances and personal information of consumers, and the intellectual property and trade secrets of business leaders.

Raymond Diaz, former chief of the New York City Police Department Transit Bureau, will become director of security at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

A man wearing women's clothing breached a fence and walked onto a runway at the Newark airport on Christmas Day.

All U.S. troops heading home for the holidays will be granted “expedited screening” at airport security lines with their shoes still on.

Parents at a school in Lindenhurst, NJ are protesting the school district's removal of security officers from its elementary schools.

A fake ATM was found behind a real one in a Bank of Brazil branch in Curitiba, Brazil.

Security experts at Unisys Corporation predict that the coming year will usher in broad-based adoption of encryption as enterprises respond to recent disclosures that unencrypted data traffic inside enterprises is vulnerable to detection from outsiders.

Luke J. McCormack has been named the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Homeland Security. McCormack will lead and oversee DHS’s continuing efforts to implement information technology enhancements and security.

Shoppers who used credit cards or debit cards at Target between November 27 and December 15, 2013 may have been hacked.