A new proposal in New Jersey makes it the latest state moving to require college campuses to define when "yes means yes" in an effort to stem the tide of sexual assaults.

The Transportation Security Administration would like to remind holiday travelers to leave their toy chainsaws, grenades, sparklers and nunchucks at home this year.

 The number of lives lost to terrorist attacks increased by 61% in a single year, according to the second edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI). 

 TSA head John Pistole thinks passengers who have been vetted by the agency's PreCheck Program should be allowed to take their bottled water through airport security checkpoints. 

MasterCard is working with Visa to create a new authentication standard for online payments that will gradually replace the 3D Secure protocol with “invisible authentication”.

News of the NSA's metadata collection and communications surveillance has been a further hit to Americans' confidence of their control of personal data online and communications.

Only 45 percent of consumers have changed an online password or PIN code in the past year after learning of data breaches; 15 percent made fewer online purchases on mobile devices; and 28 percent shopped less frequently at a retailer that had suffered a data breach.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, said that four of its websites were hacked in recent weeks. 

There are 19.6 million veterans living in the United States now, and the sacrifices they and their families have made help to shape the security industry and the nation every day. So, to those soldiers who cared not for themselves, but for their nation, we salute you.

Happy Veterans Day.

A Methuen, Mass school will soon have an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus.