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Nearly 70 percent of critical infrastructure companies surveyed by Unisys and the Ponemon Institute suffered a security breach in the last year. According to the report, “Despite staggering statistics around the number of security breaches within these sectors, results showed that they gap between security concern and preparedness is overwhelming.”

Legislation for chemical facility security standards, border preclearance, Homeland Security social media use and emergency communications passed with bipartisan support in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. 

A California jury  found the Los Angeles Dodgers negligent in a civil lawsuit related to the beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow following a 2011 baseball game.

Eleven people were reported dead and at least 50 others injured from shootings over the four-day Independence Day holiday. 

Target Corp. said it would "respectfully" ask customers to not bring guns into its stores, "even in communities where it is permitted by law." 

Organizations around the world lose an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to occupational fraud, according to a survey of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs).

Florida has enacted an Information Protection Act that aims to ward off identity theft by requiring organizations to protect personal data and report data breaches in a shorter period. 

Joseph Esposito was named the New York City Office of Emergency Management commissioner. 

Almost 1.2 million shoplifters and dishonest employees were apprehended in 2013 by just 23 large retailers who recovered over $199 million from the thieves.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee plans to cruise ship security at a July hearing called by committee chairman Jay Rockefeller.