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More companies are turning to cyber insurance to protect their organizations from the financial consequences of a data breach or cyber attack.

A new cloud-computing platform would send difficult computing tasks to the cloud instead of using on-board computing, leading to faster, smarter robots.

Budget cuts have left state justices without security protection after they leave government facilities, one justice says. 

A massive scheme among insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers to defraud the federal crop insurance program has been uncovered by Federal investigators.

29 pharmaceutical companies are pledging money to help Interpol combat counterfeit or illegal drugs, sales of which total $430 billion a year. 

The contentious proposal to reinstate the assault weapons ban has been postponed, but measures to extend background checks to private gun sales and fund school security improvements have been voted through to the Senate. 

Nearly half of gun owners now say they keep firearms in their possession for security purposes, according to findings by the Pew Research Center.

Cyberattacks got top billing on the list of security threats facing the U.S.

 The ASIS New York City Chapter has selected Patrick Timlin, CEO of MSA Security, as the 2013 Person of the Year.

A federal judge has ruled that DHS must release two safety reports it conducted in the 2000s evaluating the radiation safety of body-scanning machines.