The agency responsible for protecting the United States from nuclear terrorism wasted time, money, and effort on unproven detection technology rather than developing a plan to close critical vulnerabilities terrorists could exploit, a panel of watchdogs told the Senate Homeland Security committee today.

As consumers continue to purchase smart phones and other portable devices at a rapid clip, they are increasingly bringing these devices inside organizational networks, according to a study by Cisco Systems. This trend is creating data loss and other security risks, it states.

Easy-to-obtain Puerto Rican birth certificates are such a hot commodity among identity thieves that all Puerto Ricans born before July 1 will need to apply for a more secure replacement before they are voided on September 30.

The latest G8 and G20 global economic summits wrapped up in Toronto and nearby Huntsville, Ontario, Canada over the weekend, amid the largest mass arrests in the country's history, and the troubling revelation that two protesters were caught emerging from a city manhole, according to press reports.