Morning Security Brief: State Data Breach, al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula, Security Partnership, Another Detroit Airport Scare

♦ Fifty-thousand Californians are worrying about identity theft after the California Department of Health Care Services mailed letters to residents with their Social Security numbers listed on the outside of the envelope.

♦ The deputy chief of an al Qaeda-inspired group in Yemen calls for attacks against Saudi Arabia and the United States.

♦ USA Today takes a look at the unprecedented cross-border security partnership between the United States and Canada to protect next week's fast approaching Winter Olympics.

♦ The Department of Homeland Security drafted threat assessments on law-abiding protesters on both sides of the abortion debate in Wisconsin last year.

♦ Another scare at Detroit Metro Airport closed a portion of a terminal yesterday, after a man without a ticket and baggage walked through security without being screened.

NOTE: Security Management offices are closed again today due to the weekend blizzard and another approaching storm.