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Al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, according to an initial look at DVDs, computers and other documents seized at the raid on Osama bin Laden's home, NBC News reported.

Sony yesterday reported a second security breach by hackers, who may have stolen personal information about 24.6 million users, according to news services.

ASIS International has conducted the first Technical Committee meeting for the development of an American National Standard to support the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC).

A comprehensive forum discussion on risk management titled, “Mitigating Risk and Controlling Safety and Security Cost, “will kick off the 2011 National Sport Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition set for Aug. 2-4 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, La.

A New York Yankees ticket rep apparently sent out an email blast that included a spreadsheet containing the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of 20,000 season ticket accounts, according to a report in DeadSpin.com, a sports website.

Jeff Moss, founder of DEF CON, the world's largest hacker conference, and Black Hat, a global technical security conference, has been named Vice President and Chief Security Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the multinational non-profit organization working for a secure, stable and unified global Internet.

Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it delayed disclosing a security breach of its popular PlayStation Network, says a Reuters report.

Violence in the workplace continues to make news headlines and is a growing concern to security, human resources, and management across all industries. Threats, verbal abuse, physical assault, and homicide in the workplace affect two million American workers annually.

A new maritime center has been unveiled in Los Angeles to train local officers on port security.