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03/25	Motion to Withdraw New York v. Citibank
01/21	Holding Government Contractors Accountable for Wrongdoing Argus Information and Advisory Services, a subsidiary of TransUnion, has agreed in...
01/17	Strengthening Appraisal Oversight: Progress at the Appraisal Subcom... CFPB Deputy Director Zixta Martinez discusses changes at the ASC since she became ...
01/17	Back from the Dead: Zombie Second Mortgages Forgotten second mortgages may be coming back to haunt homeowners who haven’t rece...
01/16	Holding Credit Reporting Companies Accountable for Junk Data Including junk data and mistakes on people's credit reports is against the law.
01/15	What We’re Watching: Language Access in Consumer Finance Financial institutions are increasingly serving consumers in languages other than ...
01/14	Strengthening State-Level Consumer Protections Today, the CFPB is releasing new recommendations to states on how they can update ...
01/10	LFG (Looking for gamers): CFPB wants to hear about your video game ... The CFPB invites video gamers to share their experiences with video game currencie...
01/10	New protections for payday and installment loans take effect March 30 The CFPB’s rule protecting payday and installment loan borrowers takes effect on M...
01/02	Protecting you from unlawful debt collection at work The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is stopping companies from improperly con...
12/19	New tactics from companies trying to charge illegal junk fees As companies are stopped from charging illegal junk fees, people are facing new ri...
12/18	FTC Approves Final Order against Rytr, Seller of an AI “Testimonial... The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order against Rytr, sett...
12/17	Food for thought: The FTC’s proposed settlement with Grubhub By Julia Solomon Ensor So, you’ve developed a technology-driven delivery platform ...
12/17	Getting to the bottom line: The FTC’s bipartisan Junk Fees Rule and... By Julia Solomon Ensor .field--name-body a[href$=".pdf"]:after, .field--name-body ...
12/17	Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Tic... Image The Federal Trade Commission today announced a final Junk Fees Rule to prohi...
12/17	FTC, Illinois Attorney General Take Action Against Grubhub for Harm... Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission a...
12/16	FTC, Illinois Attorney General to Announce Major Law Enforcement Ac... The Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General will announce a maj...
12/12	New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Onl... New Federal Trade Commission complaint data show a sharp spike in online job scams...
12/10	FTC Sends More Than $540,000 in Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Phan... The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $540,000 in refunds to consumers...
12/10	Statement on FTC’s Win in Lawsuit Against the Makers of Dietary Sup... Samuel Levine, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Prote...
12/10	FTC Staff Sends Warning Letters to Healthcare Plan Marketers and Le... As open enrollment season for healthcare plans is ongoing, the staff of the Federa...
12/10	Selling health insurance plans or healthcare-related products? Take... By Julia Solomon Ensor ‘Tis the season for healthcare-related marketing and advert...
12/09	FTC Sends Refund Payments to Consumers Impacted by Epic Games’ Unla... The Federal Trade Commission is sending refunds totaling more than $72 million to ...
12/09	FTC Acts to Stop Scheme that Bilked Millions out of Student Loan Bo... The Federal Trade Commission has stopped a scheme that allegedly bilked millions o...
12/05	As holiday shopping begins, the FTC and IRS agree: scams and identi... By Julia Solomon Ensor The turkey is gone, and the relatives have departed. We’ve ...
12/05	FTC Sends Payments to Consumers Harmed by Vivint’s Misuse of Consum... The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling nearly $500,000 to consu...
12/05	CreditRepair.com and Lexington Law refund checks: What you need to ... Over 4 million consumers harmed by Lexington Law and CreditRepair.com’s illegal cr...
12/05	CFPB Ombudsman’s Office 2024 Annual Report The CFPB Ombudsman’s Office shares its FY2024 Annual Report
12/05	Los cheques de reembolsos de CreditRepair.com y Lexington Law: Lo q... Más de 4 millones de consumidores, quienes fueron perjudicados por las actividades...
12/04	Protecting consumers’ location data: Key takeaways from four recent... By Bhavna Changrani Since the start of this year, the FTC has announced four groun...
12/04	FTC Sends Refunds to Consumers Deceived by False Claims of ‘Next Da... The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $114,000 to consumers who w...
12/03	Selling facial recognition technology or other biometric informatio... By Julia Solomon Ensor Today, the FTC continues its fight against unsupported clai...
12/03	FTC Takes Action Against Mobilewalla for Collecting and Selling Sen... The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from sell...
12/03	FTC Takes Action Against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for Unlawfully Se... The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Gravy Analytics Inc. and its...
12/03	FTC Takes Action Against IntelliVision Technologies for Deceptive C... The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against IntelliVision Technologies C...
12/02	FTC Order Requires Online Retailer GOAT to Pay More than $2 Million... The Federal Trade Commission today announced a court order requiring GOAT, a leadi...
11/27	FTC Takes Aim at Top Fraud Driving Losses Among Older Americans The Federal Trade Commission has approved final amendments to its Telemarket...
11/26	FTC Takes Action Against Evolv Technologies for Deceiving Users Abo... The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Evolv Technologies over alle...
11/26	Smart Products Surveyed Fail to Provide Consumers with Information ... A new paper from Federal Trade Commission staff finds that nearly 89% of products ...
11/21	FTC Sends Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Credit Bureau Center’s Fak... The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling nearly $1.9 million to c...

03/29	Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is... It is often falsely claimed that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year...
03/29	Unpacking long-standing claim oceans will contain more plastic than... A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would b...
03/29	Fact Check: Hollywood Legend Will Smith Has NOT Passed Away -- Clic... Has actor Will Smith died as of March 25, 2025? No, that's not true: Smith appeare...
03/29	We've fact-checked these 24 rumors about Melania Trump Yes, Russian TV once aired her nude photos. No, she did not dig up the White House...
03/29	Fact Check: Richard Gere Announced Leaving The United States For Sp... Did actor Richard Gere leave the United States after Donald Trump became president...
03/29	No, Germany is not shutting down Tesla production Still, Tesla sales plummeted in the country.
03/29	Fact Check: Clickbait 'High School Janitor Gifted SUV' Stories Use ... Did Karoline Leavitt, Barron Trump, Patrick Mahomes, Dawn Staley, Connor McDavid a...
03/28	Video showing hundreds of people trapped on sinking ship cropped to... One Facebook user's post featuring the video received over 11 million views in Mar...
03/28	Don't fall for rumor Patrick Mahomes rejected $10M from Musk A website falsely claimed Musk said, "Patrick Mahomes has redefined the game of fo...
03/28	Investigating rumor claiming Pete Hegseth owned Russian email address Users discussed the rumor about the U.S. secretary of defense following the leak o...
03/28	No, 'Snow White' remake is not the lowest-rated movie ever on IMDb The live-action film was the target of review bombing — but there were lower-rated...
03/28	Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University grad student, was detained by ma... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "a...
03/28	No, Project 2025 doesn't advise government officials to use Signal ... The claim spread after The Atlantic reported that Trump officials accidentally add...
03/28	Q&A on the Alien Enemies Act and Tren de Aragua in the U.S. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a District Court judg...
03/28	RFK Jr.’s Faulty Advice On Bird Flu In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robe...
03/28	Fact Check: Road Rage Video Does NOT Involve A Tesla -- It's A Non-... Did a viral video capture a motorist hitting a pedestrian after a road rage incide...
03/28	Trump budget cuts canceled 20 truckloads of food for Cleveland food... The Greater Cleveland Food Bank said it was expecting 500,000 pounds of food betwe...
03/28	Fact Check: 'Loophole in U.S. Law' Does NOT Legalize Non-citizen Vo... Does a "loophole in U.S. law" legally grant permission to noncitizens to vote in f...
03/28	Trump officials may have texted classified info to group chat with ... Here's what we know about whether officials shared classified intel in leaked grou...
03/28	Fact Check: AI Image Shows Person With Blue Hair Writing 'Fascist' ... Does an image authentically show a person with blue hair writing "fascist" on a Te...
03/28	Usha Vance's Greenland visit plans were changed, not canceled. Offi... According to the vice president's office, the second lady's travel plans changed a...
03/28	Fact Check: SCAM Bittrex Emails Sent Via Govdelivery.com Domain Are... Are emails sent via the public.govdelivery.com email domain and claiming to be abo...
03/28	Robin Williams had contract clause requiring his movies to hire hom... According to the rumor, Williams included a clause in his acting contracts that re...
03/28	Fact Check: Danish Politicians Laughed in Parliament About Circus E... Did an authentic video show members of the Danish Parliament laughing heartily at ...
03/28	Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Turkey Protesters Dressed as Batman, J... Did an authentic photo show protesters in Turkey in March 2025, dressed as The Jok...
03/28	Karoline Leavitt took selfie in 'Make America Blonde Again' T-shirt? The White House confirmed the photograph's authenticity.
03/28	Chiefs rumor claiming Musk was banned from games is false An article detailing the fictional scenario claimed the billionaire was "prohibite...
03/27	Fact Check: NO Credible Public Reports Said Elon Musk Was In Talks ... Was Elon Musk reported in March 2025 to be in talks to buy the Cincinnati Bengals ...
03/27	What is DOGE? Exploring the initiative's creation, legality and pur... The Department of Government Efficiency has shaken up U.S. politics since its ince...
03/27	No evidence House Speaker Mike Johnson is on Grindr A TikTok user alleged he had screenshots of Johnson corresponding with another per...
03/27	Yes, Biden admin authorized use of Signal — but not for sensitive m... The claims spread after members of President Donald Trump's White House accidental...
03/27	Fact Check: No Evidence Elon Musk Funded Lily Thompson's Surgery An... Did Elon Musk save the life of 7-year-old Lily Thompson by paying her medical bill...
03/27	Fact Check: FAKE Facebook Warning Says 'Justin Scott' and 'Carla Ho... Does a Facebook post alert users to an authentic "Homicide Bureau" fugitive case i...
03/27	Tesla rumor claiming mugshot shows man crying after arrest for vand... Online users shared the mugshot as a meme amid a flurry of news about the electric...
03/27	Rumors that restaurant chain Chipotle is going bankrupt and closing... Diners worried about losing coveted access to Chipotle's cilantro-lime rice need n...
03/27	Florida lawmakers debate lifting some child labor laws Critics of Senate Bill 918 said it was attempting to solve Florida's labor shortag...
03/27	Televangelist Kenneth Copeland is the target of false AI-generated ... YouTube videos are promoting fictional stories about the 88-year-old supposedly co...
03/27	Posts Make Unsupported Claims About Origin of Texas Measles Outbreak The measles vaccine uses a weakened virus that's never been shown to spread to oth...
03/27	Trump is talking about 'compensation' for Jan. 6 rioters The president said the rioters were "patriots."
03/27	Fact Check: Patrick Mahomes Did NOT Reject Fictional '$10 Million O... Did football player Patrick Mahomes reject a "$10 Million Offer" from Elon Musk? N...
03/27	Fact Check: March 26, 2025 Berlin Car Crash Was NOT Terrorist Attack Was a March 26, 2025, car crash in Berlin a premeditated act of terrorism? No, tha...
03/27	Was the Signal Chat Illegal? As fallout from a Trump administration group chat about a military attack in Yemen...
03/27	Target visits are down, Costco visits are up. One report credits DE... Target faced backlash after ending its DEI programs in January 2025.
03/27	Tracking Trump's tariffs For U.S. President Donald Trump, tariffs aren't just about macroeconomics: They're...
03/27	Fact Check: FAKE Transcript Extends Tulsi Gabbard Response To Jim H... Does a genuine transcript show what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbar...
03/27	Trump's commerce secretary said he sold 1K 'gold card' visas in a d... U.S. President Donald Trump previously posited that his "gold card" visas could ma...
03/27	Unpacking claim photo shows Obama laughing at meme of himself the d... The text of the meme read: "Sorry it took so long to get you a copy of my birth ce...
03/26	Is this a real orange owl — or AI? Scientists aren't really sure why this bird, nicknamed "Rusty" or "Creamsicle," is...
03/26	Fact Check: Beyoncé Did NOT Announce Relocation To Italy Because Of... Did Beyoncé publicly confirm she will move to Italy because she can't "breathe the...
03/26	Will telling 23andMe to delete personal data protect your genetic i... There's always a chance the data doesn't get erased — but consumers should ask 23a...

08/14	NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Webinar: Protecting Your Small Bu... Phishing is one of the most common types of cyber crime. These scams use convincin...
06/26	Iris Experts Group (IEG) Annual Meeting The Iris Experts Group is a forum for the discussion of technical questions of int...
05/07	5th High-Performance Computing Security Workshop High-performance computing (HPC) systems provide fundamental computing infrastruct...
04/08	Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit The Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit is an annual event bringing together ...
03/28	A Vulnerability in CrushFTP Could Allow for Unauthorized Access A vulnerability has been discovered in CrushFTP, which could allow for unauthorize...
03/26	A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, which could allow for arbitr...
03/26	Threat Level - GUARDED On March 26, the Cyber Threat Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (...
03/26	The Essential Role of AISRT in Flaw and Vulnerability Management The SEI established the first Artificial Intelligence Security Incident Response T...
03/25	macOS Security Compliance Project Developer Conference The National Institute of Standards and Technology will host a developer conferenc...
03/24	DeepSeek: A New Player in the Global AI Race CIS analysts break down the rise of DeepSeek, a GenAI model that collects data and...
03/24	Enhancing Machine Learning Assurance with Portend This post introduces Portend, a new open source toolset that simulates data drift ...
03/21	A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, which could allow for arbitr...
03/21	A Vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication Could Allow for Arbit... A vulnerability has been discovered in Veeam Backup & Replication, which could all...
03/20	Active Lumma Stealer Campaign Impacting U.S. SLTTs The CIS CTI team spotted a Lumma Stealer campaign where SLTT victims were redirect...
03/20	CSF 2.0 Webinar Series: Implementing CSF 2.0—The Why, What, and How To address the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape and equip organizations with ...
03/20	A Vulnerability in AMI MegaRAC Software Could Allow for Remote Code... A vulnerability has been discovered in AMI MegaRAC Software, which could allow for...
03/20	Cybersecurity of Logistics Decision Models Goods, services, and people simply cannot get to where they are needed without eff...
03/18	A Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat Could Allow for Remote Code Execution A vulnerability has been discovered in Apache Tomcat, which could allow for remote...
03/18	CISA Probationary Reinstatements
03/14	MS-ISAC CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Sante ... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sante PACS Server, the most sever...
03/12	Statement on CISA's Red Team
03/12	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Android OS Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Android OS, the most sever...
03/12	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products Could Allow for Arbitr... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products, the most severe...
03/11	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortinet Products Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered Fortinet Products, the most severe o...
03/11	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe o...
03/11	Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, March 11, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most seve...
03/11	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of...
03/11	#StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware Summary Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is part of an ongoing #StopRansomw...
03/11	NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum Encryption The new algorithm will serve as a backup for the general encryption needed to prot...
03/10	CIS Benchmarks March 2025 Update Here is an overview of the CIS Benchmarks that the Center for Internet Security (C...
03/10	The DevSecOps Capability Maturity Model Implementing DevSecOps can improve multiple aspects of the effectiveness of a soft...
03/06	NIST Finalizes Guidelines for Evaluating ‘Differential Privacy’ Gua... Using differential privacy can help organizations glean useful insights from datab...
03/05	Workshop on Foundational Cybersecurity Activities for IoT Device Ma... NIST will host a full-day workshop at the NCCoE to continue discussions related to...
03/05	Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware ESXi, Works... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fus...
03/03	Detection and Repair: The Cost of Remediation This year, we plan on making some exciting updates to the SEI CERT C Coding Standa...
02/27	Perspectives on Generative AI in Software Engineering and Acquisition It is essential that software and acquisition professionals learn how to apply AI-...
02/26	Celebrating 1 Year of CSF 2.0 It has been one year since the release of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2...
02/25	NCSWIC Publishes Spring 2024 Bi-Annual Meeting Executive Summaries
02/24	Protecting AI from the Outside In: The Case for Coordinated Vulnera... This post highlights lessons learned from applying the coordinated vulnerability d...
02/19	#StopRansomware: Ghost (Cring) Ransomware Summary Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is part of an ongoing #StopRansomw...
02/17	Introducing MLTE: A Systems Approach to Machine Learning Test and E... Machine learning systems are notoriously difficult to test. This post introduces M...
02/12	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of...
02/12	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortinet Products Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered Fortinet Products, the most severe o...
02/11	Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, February 11, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most seve...
02/11	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe o...
02/11	SAFECOM Publishes Spring 2024 SAFECOM Bi-Annual Meeting Executive S...
02/10	Cyber-Informed Machine Learning This blog post proposes cyber-informed machine learning as a conceptual framework ...
02/06	A Vulnerability in Trimble Cityworks Could Allow for Remote Code Ex... A vulnerability has been discovered in Trimble Cityworks that could allow for remo...
02/05	CIS Benchmarks February 2025 Update Here is an overview of the CIS Benchmarks that the Center for Internet Security (C...
02/04	Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Android OS Could Allow for Privi... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Android OS, the most sever...

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