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Seizure orders have been executed against 150 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works as part of Operation In Our Sites.

The first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, including security.

Bit9 researchers has compiled a list of 12 smartphones that pose the highest security and privacy risks to consumers and corporations.

The police chief of the University of California, Davis, had been placed on administrative leave, three days after two campus police officers sprayed seated protesters with pepper spray.

A sting in Cook County, Ill. targeting professional shoplifters in three locations has culminated in 59 arrests.

Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs in and around New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night.

Tampa, Fla. will get $50 million in federal money to cover security costs for next year's Republican National Convention.

Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new partnership between the DHS “If You See Something, Say Something” public awareness campaign and Major League Soccer (MLS).

The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism announced that it had arrested Robert Butyka in Cluj-Napoca, a city in Western Romania, for hacking into NASA’s servers and causing $500,000 in damage.