The 2012 Indicators of School Crime and Safety report also notes that 77 percent of students (age 12-18) reported having security cameras in their schools.

Two men have been arrested in the case of a teenage girl who died after a suicide attempt that followed months of cyber bullying, including lewd photos of an alleged sexual assault that were posted online, Reuters reports.

A new Ponemon survey shows that many risk management leaders remain skeptical over the value of cyber insurance, but 30 percent of those companies who have it have already submitted a claim.

A $1.5 million cyberheist against a California escrow firm earlier this year has forced the company to close and lay off its entire staff.

By pretending to be executives at a well-known financial institution, the alleged scammers created a bogus line of credit and spent upwards of $220,000. 

The crimes encompass everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials, but violent crime remains unsanctioned for informants by the Justice Department. 

The four-course program will cover the fundamentals of network security, protecting electronic assets, preventing attacks and ensuring consumer privacy. 

Interpol has issued a global security alert in connection with suspected al-Qaeda involvement in several recent prison escapes including those in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan.

The rate of suicide using guns has gone up in most of the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas, but the murder rate has fallen, according to new statistics.

Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.