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Just hours ago, the Washington, D.C., Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) launched Blue TIDE -- Terrorism Identification and Deterrence Effort, which included about 50 MTPD officers conducting a major, high-visibility,

Special events seem to be in the crosshairs of security executives who are spending millions of dollars to protect their special activities from what CIA Director Panette suggested to Congress

The FBI and the North Carolina Bankers Association have joined forces to launch a new weapon to wage war on bank robbers. In December 2009, the FBI and NCBA unveiled

Bollards and barriers, pioneered at American diplomatic facilities overseas, are being installed at U.S. high rise office buildings and local government facilities. The aim: to diminish the chance of and

The Government Accounting Office (GAO) released the following report summary: The December 25, 2009, attempted bombing of flight 253 raised questions about the federal government's ability to protect the homeland

New research finds collisions are not declining in jurisdictions where bans are in effect. "The laws aren't reducing crashes, even though we know that such laws have reduced hand-held phone

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses are prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that the U.S. Transportation Secretary announced earlier this week. The prohibition is effective immediately. Truck and bus

Data breaches at U.S. companies attributed to malicious attacks and botnets doubled from 2008 to 2009 and cost substantially more than breaches caused by human negligence or system glitches, according

Cincinnati police officers are now field testing wearable clip-on video cameras. The device is called AXON and ironically is being marketed by Taser International. A similar experiment in London, but

Computer scientists in Britain have uncovered weaknesses in electronic passports issued by the U.S., UK, and some 50 other countries that allow attackers to trace the movements of individuals as