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Low-flying government planes, bomb-sniffing dogs, magnetometers, high-tech mobile command centers, SWAT officers, police horses or robots will all be a part of the massive annual security effort that comes with hosting the Super Bowl, which has long been considered a potential terrorist target

The U.S. Secret Service will put to bed a table-top game it uses in training and replace it with an electronic version.

The Security Executive Council is pleased to announce that Managing Director Bob Hayes will keynote the upcoming Great Conversation™ event in Seattle.

A recent survey of more than 570 U.S.-based corporate security professionals, travel managers, human resources executives, medical professionals and others reveals that 40 percent of respondents identify Latin America as the region that poses the greatest risk to their business travelers in 2011.

The Springfield-Branson National Airport wants to opt out of TSA security and go to a private company.

 

It's not perfect. The E-Verify system lets unauthorized workers slip through its filter more than half the time because it cannot spot identity theft, according to a federal report.

 

The government recaptured a record $4 billion last year from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other providers of care that defrauded federal health-care programs, the Obama administration reported.

By the end of April, terror threats to the U.S. will no longer be described in shades of green, blue, yellow, orange and red, says an AP report.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page was hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a "social business".

To honor Data Privacy Day, Rebecca Herold, the Privacy Professor, reveals the top five privacy predictions for 2011: