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BlackBerry Ltd has named David Kleidermacher as its chief security officer.  

New research shows a pattern of underreporting of on-campus sexual assaults by universities and colleges across the nation. 

Penn State University has introduced a series of new measures to crack down on student-to-student sexual assault.

Anthem, Inc., the second top insurer in the U.S., has reported a data breach that could affect a large percentage of its 37.5 million customers, as well as employees and past customers. Early estimates report that this could be the largest data breach affecting a U.S.-based health insurer yet. 

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced plans for a College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity to be located at the University at Albany.

For the fourth time in less than a year, Mineta San Jose International Airport suffered a security breach after a man got inside the airport's perimeter fence before a guard detained him. 

Three-million offensesagainst UK retailers in 2014 racked up direct costs of £603 million ($913 million U.S.) in 2014 – while the number of in-store thefts fell by four percent, the value per incident climbed 36 percent. 

Tokyo has been named the world's safest city, according to a 2015 Safe Cities Index by The Economist. 

All offenses in the violent crime category, including murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery, showed decreases in the first six months of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013, the FBI report says. 

Nearly all campus police officers at public universities now carry guns, pepper spray and other weapons, according to a new Bureau of Justice Statistics report.