Hosam Maher Husein Smadi pleaded guilty to a felony offense related to his attempted bombing of a downtown Dallas skyscraper in September 2009. He faces a maximum statutory sentence of

Three masked gunmen have stolen jewelry worth 12 million kronor ($1.5 million) from one of Sweden's most prominent auction houses, said an AP report. The report said that the thieves

Some passengers boarding Amtrak trains at Union Station in Chicago will face random screening of their carry-on bags, said a Chicago Tribune report.   The new security measure, which will

Aberdeen Group released research showing that users of cloud-based email security solutions had substantially better results than users of on-premise email security implementations in security, compliance, reliability and cost. Compared

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas introduced an amendment to the emergency war supplemental to make $144 million available to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expand the presence of

Homegrown terrorism will be part of the United States' National Security Strategy for the first time, according to President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser.   When the Obama administration unveils

Canada's transport minister says his country will spend more than $95 million on new security measures for air cargo at Canadian airports.   John Baird says the five-year upgrade involves

The CSO Roundtable of ASIS International will host Opportunity and Risk: The CSO Roundtable Latin America Summit, a two-day conference for senior security executives in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 6-7,

Airline passengers who get frustrated and kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener could find themselves in a little-known Homeland Security database.  

Faceboo plans to soon simplify its privacy tools. The disclosure, which came in an opinion piece by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is the company's first direct response to increased concerns