Cyber criminals have taken over social media websites and e-mails to target consumers donating for Japan's disaster relief.

The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has declared March 21-25 Business Continuity Week, a global educational event designed to help people understand more about business continuity management, its applications and benefits.

For the first time, industry groups and civil liberties interests have come together to advocate a comprehensive, common approach to cybersecurity.

Los Angeles police arrested a man wielding a knife after a standoff for about an hour on the court ahead of an NBA game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers.

During fiscal year 2010, efforts to reduce the trade in stolen intellectual property yielded 19,959 seizures, a 34 percent increase over 2009 numbers, said the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

EMC, the world's biggest maker of data storage computers, said that its security division has been hacked.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano joined National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Mark Emmert to announce a new partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "If You See Something, Say Something™" public awareness campaign and the NCAA.

ASIS International has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an ANSI standard that provides principles and requirements for a quality assurance management system for private sector security organizations to abide by and demonstrate accountability to internationally recognized norms of civil and human rights while providing quality assurance in the provision of their products and services.

The U.S. Travel Association wants adoption of a trusted traveler program to make airport screening faster and encourage more travel.

The team of CARTES and IDentification and CARTES in ASIA announced CARTES in North America, to be held March 5-7, 2012 in Las Vegas.