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All visitors to the Washington, D.C. jails soon will have their fingerprints scanned and checked against law enforcement databases for outstanding warrants.

Two men who authorities say were competing to impress their fellow hackers were arrested on federal charges they stole the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, including politicians and media personalities.

Two students were shot with one bullet at a Los Angeles high school when a student dropped a backpack containing a gun and it went off.

More than half of midsize companies are planning to increase their information technology (IT) budgets over the next 12 to 18 months, according to an IBM global study of more than 2,000 midsize companies representing more than 20 countries.

Santa Cruz. Calif. police are poised to be the first in the nation to use a new statistical model to predict crime and try to prevent it.

With Super Bowl XLV just three weeks away, authorities in charge of security are dealing with their first test.

Small and mid-sized businesses still haven’t recognized the tremendous impact a disaster can have on their businesses. Despite warnings, it seems like many still think it can’t happen to them, says a study by Semantec Corp.

NASA has appointed Valarie Burks as its deputy CIO for Information Technology Security.

The Department of Homeland Security canceled a project to build a technology-based “virtual fence” across the Southwest border, saying that the effort was ineffective and too costly.

DETROIT (WXYZ) - The Detroit Public School system is launching a new security system designed to keep sex offenders out of the city's schools.