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Found more often at ATMs and gas station checkouts, supermarkets in California discovered skimmers at self-checkout terminals. They delayed notifying customers because they thought they had prevented a security breach but more than a hundred customers reported thefts.

A survey of healthcare organizations found the average cost of data breaches to these organizations rose from $183,526 in 2010 to $2,243,700 in 2011.

Syringes discovered by shoppers all were recovered, appeared to be unused, but are troubling to loss prevention professionals.

Thousands headed out to shops across America for 'Black Friday,'  the annual day of discounts, but a shooting, a pepper spraying and other assaults left several injured.

While some security experts spotlight transportation, electricity, and communications infrastructure for more protection, recent attacks on water treatment plants worry them, too.

The alleged scam targeted customers who often paid with American Express Black cards and other high-limit credit cards.

A nationwide emergency alert test last week proved less than perfect with a number of technology and local coordination mistakes.

As skimming grows, the good news is that two men were arrested November 1 on charges of conspiring to produce, use, or traffic in one or more counterfeit devices, following a lengthy U.S. Secret Service investigation.

Four men intended to use an online novel as a script for a real life wave of terror and assassination using explosives and the lethal toxin ricin so they could carry out targeted attacks on government buildings and employees.