Despite all the very latest screening and security measures being introduced at airports, the ages old method of "pat down search" still goes around, and is much trusted, but its scope is highly limited due to various reasons.

Over 2009, the Chinese police has placed thousands of individuals under arrest as a part of a drive against internet pornography, as has been confirmed by officials, all the while vowing a deeper and more intense crackdown which is being seen as the authorities' way of tightening overall censorship.

Special agents of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) served civil subpoenas to two travel bloggers - Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott – for having ‘leaked’ a TSA security directive which pertained to revision of passenger screening procedures following a recent bombing attempt by the ostensible underwear bomber.

Over a year after full-body scanners were scheduled to arrive as an additional security measure at the O'Hare International Airport, the area's aviation commissioner has shared that the technology is finally expected to hit within the next 6 months.

According to a recent McAfee report, the year 2010 will witness Adobe surpassing Microsoft as the primary target for hackers and virus writers. Thus far, Microsoft, which holds a leading stake of the operating system, office productivity, and Web browser markets, has been the most common target for malware attacks.

With 2010 almost here, there are many things that would change, and some that would worry, like a report from McAfee which is claiming that the coming year could be the time of "Adobe malware", with all cyber criminals turning their attention towards the company's products.

Presenting a new research project pertaining to the unveiling of a GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications - encryption codebook at a conference in Berlin, German security researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated a cheap and easy way for overhearing calls on a GSM-based mobile phone.

Despite the fact that content for the Amazon Kindle e-reader is sold in an “.azw” format, boasting DRM (digital rights management) technology for preventing the ‘export’ of the content to an unauthorized device, hackers have worked around a way to enable the transfer of Kindle content to other devices.

Confirming a zero-day "Xmas exploit" that targets both Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Symantec said in a Tuesday statement that the exploit is apparently prompted by a Trojan hidden in the PDF attachments opened unwarily by e-mail recipients.

As has been reported on Wednesday, the U. S. Transportation Security Administration posted a document online, via pure accident, which contained secrets related to passenger screening practices across all airports. Posted on the Federal Business Opportunity website, the TSA operating manual appeared online in March.