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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.

The Homeland Security Department ranked last in overall satisfaction amongst 19 large federal agencies for the third year in a row, according to the National Journal. The agency’s 46.8 percent rating in overall satisfaction marks a more than 6-point drop from 2012. The rankings, in “The Best Places to Work” 2013 report, are largely based on data collected by the Office of Personnel Management through its Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

Removal of security roadblocks, freezes on duty-free alcohol and food, and investigations into the pay of Indian staff at U.S. embassies are affecting U.S. diplomats abroad as Indian officials retaliate after an Indian diplomat was detained and searched in New York.