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The White House is taking new actions to combat sexual assault, particularly on college campuses, as President Barack Obama announced a new task force to help educational institutions prevent and respond to sexual violence as well as beef up the ability of federal agencies to hold schools accountable if they aren’t addressing problems.

Five men were arrested in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

Applicable to both private and public sectors, the Standard provides a methodology to evaluate and respond to a spectrum of threats to tangible and intangible assets on both a domestic and global basis, according to an ASIS.

A Pew Research poll says that most of the American public is tuning out the policy debate over government surveillance.

NJ state casino regulators canceled a poker match and ordered all prize money frozen until an investigation is complete on whether counterfeit poker chips were used.

Thieves armed with hammers stormed a jewelry store in Memphis, Tennessee, and stole dozens of Rolex watches.

Barack Obama announced he would end the National Security Agency’s ability to store phone data collected from millions of Americans.

Security researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered the very first wide-scale hack that involved television sets and at least one refrigerator.

The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks have reached startling levels.

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, according to flight logs recently released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group.