Singer Tiwa Savage's new domestic staff shared personal information with members of an alleged kidnapping gang, Nigeria police confirmed.

Wendy Williams shared that during a recent shopping trip at luxury department store, Bergdorf Goodman, with NeNe Leakes and Marlo Hampton, they were followed around the store.

Don’t whistle. Please, for goodness sake, don’t whistle. If you have a habit of unconsciously whistling while you walk, you need to get a handle on that. Do you know how creepy it is when a strange man walks behind us at night and whistles? That’s how scary movies start. It's one of the many creepy things men do they don't know they do.

(Washington Post) — A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals’ names to a terrorist watch list and improved the government’s ability to thwart an attack in the United States. The failure to put Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the watch listlast […]

(Chicago Sun Times) — Lewis A. Jordan, CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority, has a Chicago Police security detail — a fact police had refused to disclose but the CHA confirmed Monday after a Chicago Sun-Times report about the costs of protecting public officials.  Personal police protection for Jordan and his predecessors dates to 1999, […]

(Washington Informer) — Metro kicked off tighter security controls Tuesday, beginning randomized searches of riders’ bags at two stations during the morning commute.  The first screenings, typically running well under a minute each, lasted for an hour at the Green Line’s College Park station and Braddock Road stop on the Yellow/Blue lines in Alexandria.  No […]

For Tur-ha Ak providing security is not just a business but a way of serving his community.

(Wall Street Journal) — Examples of public resistance to the rollout of high-technology body scanners in American airports are mounting, with some protesters calling for a nationwide boycott of the new security scanners on the day before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year.  Several pilots unions are advising their members not […]

(New York Times) — As the Transportation Security Administrationscrambles to address vulnerabilities in procedures for screening cargo, it is facing growing criticism from travel industry groups over the escalating security measures for passengers.  In recent weeks, representatives from the International Air Transport Association, the U.S. Travel Association, the Allied Pilots Association and British Airways have criticized the […]

(New York Times) — Back in the 1990s fellow science and technology journalist Charles Mann and I wrote a book uncovering the true story of how a lone, young, cognitively impaired hacker with relatively few computer skills managed to perpetrate what was then the most extensive and scariest series of computer break-ins ever — government weapons […]

(New York Times) — The simple credit card is about to get a makeover.  Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want to pay with rewards points or credit, at most any merchant they please.  Other card […]