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In the first six months of this year, Transportation Security Administration screeners found 894 guns on passengers or in their carry-on bags, a 30 percent increase over the same period last year. 

TSA screeners taking their time may actually be most effective at the security gate, according to a new study.

$1.2 million in cash was discovered missing from a Swiss International Air Lines jet after it landed at John F. Kennedy Airport.

Italy's longest metro system now combines video surveillance and public-address communication to manage evacuation measures.

Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems, according to a report.

Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added to an immigration bill.

The Chicago Transit Agency has begun replacing hundreds of contract security guards with full- and part-time CTA customer-service employees.

Two men have been arrested in connection to an al-Qaida supported plot to derail Canadian passenger trains. 

A security researcher and trained commercial pilot says that an Android app can be used, at least theoretically, to hack a plane.

In San Francisco, cable cars average about an accident a month and routinely rank among the most accident-prone mass transportation modes in the country per vehicle mile traveled annually.