New Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff seems to be saying all the right things, pledging recently to re-focus the way his department assesses and responds to the terror threat.

Are your computers safe and secure? As part of the national Stop.Think.Connect campaign against cyber threats to computers in the private and public sector, the city of Mesa and the Department of Homeland Security are hosting a cyber security summit at the Mesa Arts Center on Wednesday, Sept. 26.

The Transportation Security Administration has had to abandon one passenger screening program, CAPPS II, because of privacy and accuracy questions; now its successor, Secure Flight, is in trouble for the same reasons.

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Nerdvana: A Mesa company may be closer to securing the funding it needs to avoid losing the license to produce an online roleplaying game based on the movie and series Stargate.

A new prepaid debit card could drastically reduce the number of paper Social Security checks mailed each month, therefore saving trees and putting more crooks out of business, treasury officials say.

Elections officials have secured nearly all of the 397 locations needed across Maricopa County to stage next month’s presidential preference election.

Attorney General Terry Goddard Thursday released a report asking federal and state leaders to evaluate flaws in federal and state laws and educational policies that leave students exposed to violence on school and college campuses.

Campus police would not be able to return fire if a gunman attacked a school in the Maricopa County Community College District.

Merchants in downtown Chandler plan to hire an offduty police officer in a further attempt to push the day labor trade away from their businesses.

You can feel pretty confident that the birthday bouquet delivered to your door next year won’t have a hidden bomb, thanks to a new program that will check every commercial driver’s license holder against the U.S. government’s list of possible terrorists.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government formally launched a long-awaited security crackdown in Baghdad on Wednesday, with U.S. and Iraqi troops stepping up patrols, establishing new checkpoints and randomly searching cars to stop the violence in the capital.

Until Saturday, all I really knew about Habitat for Humanity is that Jimmy Carter was involved in it. And that was all I needed to know, I’m ashamed to say.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Microsoft Corp. said Monday it would give U.S. security vendors Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. some of the information they want to make their products work with Microsoft's new operating system, Vista.

Home security used to be just about keeping bad guys out. Today the term encompasses an expanding list of services designed to protect homeowners from fire, accidental flooding and even themselves. Jennifer Geisler likes the security system she and her husband had added to their Gilbert home because it adds a level of comfort.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a bid to curb sectarian violence, Iraq's government plans to restructure the capital's security forces by putting all police officers and paramilitary soldiers under one commander, an official said Thursday.