The Memphis, Tenn. City Council approved a measure that would impose fines on people whose home or business burglar alarms frequently register false reports.   "What we're trying to do here

The Eiffel Tower and the surrounding park were evacuated on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks after a bomb alert. The city's police headquarters said an anonymous caller

The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is teaming up with the National Retail Federation (NRF) and eBay to tackle the growing problem of organized retail crime.    The partnership supports a

A new Naval Air Station (NAS) in Oak Harbor, Wash includes physical security equipment, communication systems with fiber optics, an armory and vault equipment and electrical upgrades.   The Whidbey

A Connecticut man has been charged by criminal complaint for allegedly sending more than 50 anthrax hoax and bomb threat letters to private individuals, post offices, state and federal buildings,

Facial-recognition experts from Lockheed Martin and Animetrics are on the verge of creating partial, two-dimensional images of suspects pop out from computer screens that contain three-dimensional technology.   Identifying suspects

Biometric systems -- designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or face recognition -- are "inherently fallible," says a

More than half of mobile applications aren't secure, according to a report by Internet security company Veracode.   Out of approximately 2,900 applications tested over an 18-month period, 57 percent

The detection and prevention of counterfeiting is one of the topics that will be presented at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 10) in November.

A computer programmer was convicted of launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers around the world and directed them to attack media outlets that republished stories that mentioned him.