The United States Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The nationwide test will occur on Wednesday, November 9 at 2 PM eastern standard time and may last up to three and a half minutes.
New research from the EHI Retail Institute suggests that light-fingered Germans stole goods worth a total of 1.9 billion euros ($2.77 billion) last year. Statistically speaking, that's 50 euros per household, says a Deutsch Welle report.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, re-introduced a bill that would establish a national standard for the notification to consumers by corporations when data breaches occur.
Police and school officials plan to link cameras at the Pittsburg, Calif. high school to a citywide security system that has been credited with helping to solve crimes.
An 18-year-old has been arrested and accused of hacking into websites of the U.S. government and the international crime fighting agency Interpol, says an MSNBC report.
Organized retail crime isn’t only costly for businesses, it’s dangerous, and the problem extends far beyond stores, according to NRF’s seventh annual Organized Retail Crime survey.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that Massachusetts will not participate in Secure Communities, the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration-enforcement fingerprint-sharing system. New York and Illinois both recently announced they will not participate in the program, either
In the first quarter of the year, 1,092 violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statute have been reported, according to statistics released by the FBI.