Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, re-introduced a bill that would establish a national standard for the notification to consumers by corporations when data breaches occur.
Police and school officials plan to link cameras at the Pittsburg, Calif. high school to a citywide security system that has been credited with helping to solve crimes.
An 18-year-old has been arrested and accused of hacking into websites of the U.S. government and the international crime fighting agency Interpol, says an MSNBC report.
Organized retail crime isn’t only costly for businesses, it’s dangerous, and the problem extends far beyond stores, according to NRF’s seventh annual Organized Retail Crime survey.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that Massachusetts will not participate in Secure Communities, the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration-enforcement fingerprint-sharing system. New York and Illinois both recently announced they will not participate in the program, either
In the first quarter of the year, 1,092 violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statute have been reported, according to statistics released by the FBI.
Passengers in Britain could clear airport security in as little as five seconds under plans for a sophisticated new screening system that would not require them to remove their personal belongings.
ASIS International announced the opening of the 2011 ASIS Accolades – Security’s Best, an awards competition that will recognize the security industry’s most innovative new products, services and solutions at the ASIS International 57th Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2011). ASIS exhibitors are invited to submit technology, product or service solutions for evaluation and judging. ASIS 2011 will be held Sept. 19-21 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.
The IRS is grappling with a nearly five-fold increase in taxpayer identity theft between 2008 and 2010, a Government Accountability Office official plans to tell a House hearing. There were 248,357 incidents in 2010, compared to 51,702 in 2008.
During the 2009-10 school year, middle school students were more likely to experience a violent incident than other students, according to a report by The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
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