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Just minutes before a gunman opened fire in Los Angeles International Airport last fall, killing a TSA security screener and wounding three other people, the two armed security officers assigned to the area left for breaks without informing a dispatcher as required, The Associated Press reports.

Members of a House panel threatened to privatize more airport screening unless the Transportation Security Administration improves its treatment of travelers.

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.

The federal government said that it will take action this year that could eventually require Metra and other railroads to install inward-facing video cameras in locomotives.

The Transportation Security Administration will soon inspect aircraft repair stations to lower the risk of theft and other terrorism-related activity.

The TSA confiscated 20 percent more guns at airports in 2013, with the Atlanta airport having the most seizures at 110.

Raymond Diaz, former chief of the New York City Police Department Transit Bureau, will become director of security at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

Lax security in the employee parking lot and shuttle at Tampa International Airport is a potential danger to the airport, passengers and crew, say dozens of airline employees.

A man wearing women's clothing breached a fence and walked onto a runway at the Newark airport on Christmas Day.

All U.S. troops heading home for the holidays will be granted “expedited screening” at airport security lines with their shoes still on.