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Only three days after one of the largest diamond thefts in history, two armed robbers held up a luxury watch store in Cannes, only a half-mile from the site of the diamond heist.

Through a malicious code infecting audio-visual conferencing equipment, a group of sophisticated hackers based out of Beijing might be listening in on high-level boardroom meetings, Dell's SecureWorks researchers report.

There was a 26 percent increase in TSA employee misconduct between 2010 and 2012, a new report from the Government Accountability Office says. 

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that cellphone location records are a business record, and therefore not under the protection of the Fourth Amendment. 

England's High Court has blocked the publication of an academic paper showing how to bypass a computer chip used to fight vehicle theft, citing public safety concerns.

The U.S. Senate approved President Obama’s nomination of James Comey with a 93-1 vote as the new Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Director, Monday, July 29. 

The Prince George’s County Council in Maryland has approved a bill that requires convenience stores and gas stations to have drop boxes and security cameras, according to a report from NACS online and WTTG-TV. 

Businesses lost $30 billion a year to organized retail crime, according to The National Retail Federation. Several Cook County enterprises are teaming up to get crime data and investigation material out to retailers in seconds, not days.

An armed robber held up a jewelry exhibition in the French resort city of Cannes on Sunday, stealing jewels worth $53 million.

The majority of Americans worry that the U.S. will go too far in violating privacy rights through NSA surveillance.