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With lives depending on it, today's war theater body armor may be recalled after Pentagon IG finds tests suspect.

Mail and phone threats, bomb threats, bricks and bullets through windows, the number of emotionally charged attacks on government officials and government buildings continue to increase. A case in point, exploding packages in Maryland.

Security video is at the forefront of technologies that will appeal to enterprises, cities and law enforcement this year. Here are nine trends to watch.

In response to public outcries and almost daily news reports about blunders in airport security, TSA says it's got a new way for passengers with disabilities to go through airport security.

U.S. Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano visited Ben Gurion International Airport to meet with airport officials to discuss ways both nations are enhancing global aviation security while streamlining legitimate travel and trade. Israeli airport security has been very effective.

Enterprises and their chief security and information officers face a tough and tumble 2011 with an example being an incident in Minnesota involving Vietnam-based criminals.

A stabbing at the Suburban Hospital in Bethesda is latest in Maryland-based hospital tragedies as workplace violence becomes a great healthcare threat.

Watchman patrols will be outdated sooner or later as nucelar power plants shift to automated fire detection systems that can be zoned.

A national newspaper examination contends that train and subway infrastructure is more vulnerable to threats and that vastly more people are carried on these systems than airlines.

A combination of an emergency phone, on which a threat was called in, and security video in the area may have put an end to incidents on the University of Florida campus.