Personal Security

Jordan Dinsmore is one lucky and clear-headed young lady. Her three abductors could not drive her stick-shift (manual) vehicle, so they made her drive while they sat in the passenger seats. After [...]

This year, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan occurs May 27 to June 26. For Muslims, this is a time of fasting when they take time to think about the blessings in their life and to be generous [...]

My role as a former CIA intelligence officer is to take the politics out of security issues. My job is to give you the scoop devoid of political wrangling. The sad fact about the intelligence [...]

Even if you have discussed security issues with your child—which we should all be doing on a regular basis to teach them what to look for—it bears repeating one more time in the context of [...]

Everyone thinks that to protect yourself online you need to have the skills of a hacker and high-tech cyber knowledge. But you don’t have to be a technology wizard to protect yourself or your [...]

“What should I do if, God forbid, I find myself in the middle of an attack?” It’s the key question that the media rarely hones in on: How did the survivors survive??? That’s what we all want to [...]

Should you go for a jog on the trail at dusk by yourself? Should you walk back to your car in the parking garage by yourself after dinner? Do you lock your doors and windows religiously, even [...]

September 11th stole our sense of well-being and since then, mass casualty attacks, school shootings, and assaults by crazies and lone wolfs in public places, have become the new normal. We have [...]