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The Maryland Senate approved a comprehensive gun control bill that includes a ban on assault weapons and fingerprinting for prospective handgun buyers.

34 colleges and universities applied for drone permits in 2012, mostly for academic purposes, but privacy activists are concerned. 

Data breaches and cyberattacks aren't just a worry for consumers who've had personal information filched or paranoid information security pros, they can also scare away investors.

More than 2 million complaints were submitted to the FTC last year, and identity theft topped the list for the 13th consecutive year.

Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom lead the world with privacy and security policies best suited to foster the growth of cloud computing, according to a BSA survey.

More than 900 people died in mass shootings during the past seven years, and a majority of them were killed by people they knew, according to USA TODAY.

Art Coviello opened the RSA conference discussing how Big Data analytics help security practitioners regain vigilance and time to detect and defend against advanced threats.

Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder warn that looming budget cuts would affect law enforcement agencies, border patrol and other core missions.

HP has reported that the number of software vulnerabilities disclosed in 2012 topped 8,000, a near 20 percent increase on the previous year.

In his opening keynote at RSA Conference 2013, Art Coviello,Executive Vice President of EMC Corporationand Executive Chairman of RSA, The Security Division of EMC^® addressed a crowd about the ways that Big Data is transforming the security industry, information technology, business and society.