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Shoppers are using a larger variety of payment options with digital and mobile payments serving as supplements to the traditional cash and card-based payments tools.

Alaska Airlines just completed a test program that allowed passengers to use their fingerprints instead of government-issued IDs and boarding passes.
 

The University of Florida will begin using a series of online self-assessment tools to improve campus safety programs.

Identity theft topped the list of fastest-growing complaints to state and local consumer protection agencies last year.

The combined security officer companies employ 60,000 security professionals, with coverage in all 50 U.S. states, as well as Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Together, they create the largest U.S.-owned security company. 

Frank DeFina, senior director, strategic sales, Hikvision USA Inc., died unexpectedly over the weekend.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced the appointment of Stephen Scharf to the newly-created position of CSO.

More than 1,000 security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International Airports voted unanimously to authorize a strike starting Wednesday night.

California Assemblyman Mike Gatto and Sen. Ted Gaines announced a bill that would allow first responders to jam, hack or otherwise take down drones "in the course of firefighting, air ambulance, or search-and-rescue operations."
 

An Ann Arbor resident is suing the University of Michigan after being denied a permit to open carry a gun on campus.