The federal government has a backlog of more than 700,000 pending background check investigations, a total roughly the same size as the population of Seattle. Not only does that total represent an ...

From fake sign language interpreters to a Secret Service staffing crisis that led people to question whether the agents protecting former President Donald Trump were sufficiently qualified, recent ...

A broad-based supply chain coalition is urging Congress to quickly pass legislation that would eliminate duplicative background security checks for truck drivers and other workers. The legislation, ...

Background check records of 25,000 undercover investigators and other homeland security staff were exposed in the breach at US Investigations Services (USIS) this month, unnamed officials told Reuters ...

Apple is testing a Background Security Improvement feature that first rolled out in iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1, reports MacRumors. Developers and public beta testers who are running ...

Code found in iOS 26 beta 1 reportedly reveals that Apple is prepping a new feature: Background Security Improvements. These will patch security problems and won’t need the user to be involved or even ...

I was having lunch last week with the senior executive for one of the large agencies in the government organization where I work, when I asked about the agency’s information security officer. I’d ...