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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... |
11/20 | FTC Staff Issues Report on Undercover Funeral Rule Phone Sweep The staff of the Federal Trade Commission have issued a report detailing... |
05/24 | Did Kristi Noem support a reality TV show where immigrants compete ... "The American" would see people compete in challenges to win U.S. citizenship, acc... |
05/24 | Fact Check: Spoof 'Oscar Mayer Freedom Franks' Image Originated On ... Are "Oscar Mayer Freedom Franks" featuring red, white and blue sausages a real pro... |
05/24 | Fact Check: FBI Did NOT Uncover 14 Pardons, 11 Executives Orders Si... Did FBI investigators find 14 pardons and 11 executive orders signed by autopen th... |
05/23 | Clarifying claim that DOGE, RFK Jr. found 8M people fraudulently on... The numbers appeared tied to estimates on the number of people who may be cut from... |
05/23 | Trump presented 'evidence' of 'white genocide' to South African pre... Some of the purported visual evidence didn't even come from South Africa. |
05/23 | Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE That Harvard University Has Announced A Pla... Has "Harvard" announced a plan to blacklist President Donald Trump supporters on c... |
05/23 | Unpacking claims GOP's 'big beautiful bill' lowers age of dependent... The bill lowers the age of dependents from under 18 to under seven years old, but ... |
05/23 | No proof Canadian citizens will face mandatory facial-recognition s... U.S. Customs and Border Protection has tested facial-recognition technology at lan... |
05/23 | Wendy Williams didn't testify at Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial. An AI-ge... The rumor came from a YouTube channel promoting misinformation about the rapper's ... |
05/23 | Pro-Trump TV Ad Overstates His Second-Term Economic Record A TV ad from a group supportive of President Donald Trump makes misleading claims,... |
05/23 | Trump Administration Incorrectly Claims Certainty About Origin of C... Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed ... |
05/23 | Fact Check: Picture Held Up By Trump In Oval Office Meeting Did NOT... Did an image shown to the public by U.S. President Donald Trump during a May 21, 2... |
05/23 | Fact Check: Pro-Trump Cuban Activist Hector Luis Valdes Cocho Was P... Was pro-Trump Cuban activist Hector Luis Valdes Cocho detained by ICE and held for... |
05/23 | Samuel L. Jackson did not testify at Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial The rumor was the latest in an onslaught of misinformation about Combs' trial. |
05/23 | Billy Joel didn't cancel concerts with Bruce Springsteen over Trump... The claim originated from a social media page known for satirical content. |
05/23 | A False Claim About Illegal Immigration and Medicaid A House-passed reconciliation bill would reduce federal funding to states that pro... |
05/23 | Fact Check: Ketanji Brown Jackson Did NOT Take $2.1 Million Italian... Did Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accept a $2.1 million bribe from G... |
05/23 | Yes, Musk has an estranged trans daughter named Vivian Jenna Wilson Wilson made news in May 2025 for her modeling debut with queer-owned clothing bran... |
05/23 | Fact Check: Will Smith Did NOT Testify in the Trial of Sean 'Diddy'... Did the actor Will Smith testify during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in May 202... |
05/23 | Stealth drone landed in Wyoming demanding fuel? The "autonomous" drone also did not calmly reroute airplanes entering Casper airport. |
05/23 | A judge temporarily blocked Trump's efforts to end the Department o... On May 22, 2025, a judge temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's executi... |
05/23 | Fact Check: Joke Meme About Springsteen Royalties 'Tanking' And WDK... Was a story about Bruce Springsteen's royalties "tanking" because of a radio boyco... |
05/22 | Musk claimed Starlink isn't allowed to operate in South Africa beca... Tech billionaire Elon Musk was born in South Africa but emigrated at age 17 and ev... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Show Pope Leo XIV Criticiz... Does the video authentically capture Pope Leo XIV publicly disparaging JD Vance fo... |
05/22 | Trump, Allies Spread Unfounded Claims About Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis Former President Joe Biden's office announced on May 18 that he had been diagnosed... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Authentically Show Houthis Missiles Targ... Does a photo shared on social media authentically show Houthis missiles targeting ... |
05/22 | No, Pete Townshend of The Who did not call Bruce Springsteen 'a bit... He did however, once say the American singer's performances were "a bit of blood a... |
05/22 | Did LA Dodgers reject ad for Musk's Tesla electric vehicles at Dodg... The rumor is part of a symphony of nearly identical claims about other professiona... |
05/22 | Fact Check: 'White Genocide' Video Played In Oval Office Does NOT S... Did the footage shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 21, 2025 i... |
05/22 | Trump suggested Biden hid cancer diagnosis. Here's what we know abo... Standard medical practice is to not test men who have a life expectancy of less th... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did NOT Fail To Condemn Capital Jewish ... Did Rep. Ilhan Omar fail to condemn the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers a... |
05/22 | Clarifying claims that cheating 'after signing marriage papers' wil... Some U.S. states do have laws criminalizing adultery, but lawyers generally advise... |
05/22 | Trump Video Doesn’t Show ‘Burial Sites’ in South Africa In a salient moment with the leader of South Africa, President Donald Trump played... |
05/22 | Here's why Obama was briefly mentioned during Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial The former U.S. president's name came up during during a line of questioning regar... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Pete Townsend Did NOT Say Bruce Springsteen Should 'Shu... Did Pete Townsend from The Who say Bruce Springsteen should "shut up and play" in ... |
05/22 | FEMA packages to migrants provided by Biden admin weren't found by ... Online users shared and discussed a rumor in May 2025 about U.S. Border Patrol age... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Venezuelan Government Did NOT Donate $22.9 Million For ... Did the Venezuelan government donate $22.9 million for an apartment to be built on... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Photo of Two Men With Israeli Flags Does NOT Show Embas... Did a photograph shared online show the victims of a May 21, 2025 shooting outside... |
05/22 | 10 rumors we've fact-checked involving Bruce Springsteen The "Born in the U.S.A." singer is the subject of many rumors — some true, some not. |
05/22 | Banner of Trump hung next to Lincoln on USDA building in a move cri... An edited version of the image showing Lincoln giving Trump the finger also circul... |
05/22 | Fact Check: Rep. LaMonica McIver Did NOT Start Singing 'You Fight O... Did Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-NJ, start singing "You Fight On" during a CNN intervie... |
05/21 | Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen performed together in 'defiance' af... The president posted scathing criticisms of the two musicians on Truth Social. |
05/21 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show British Porn Actress 'Bonnie Blue' ... Do viral videos authentically show the British porn actress known as Bonnie Blue b... |
05/21 | Fact Check: Next Air Force One Is NOT Qatari-Made -- Qatar Manufact... Did the Pentagon in May of 2025 approve acquisition of a "Qatari-built jet" to be ... |
05/21 | Kristi Noem said habeas corpus gives Trump right 'to remove people ... The homeland security secretary was wrong. We take a look at the actual meaning of... |
05/21 | Usher didn't testify in court against Sean 'Diddy' Combs A YouTube user promoted this false rumor about Usher and Combs' trial with an AI-g... |
05/21 | George Strait canceled show with Bruce Springsteen over Trump comme... There is no evidence the musicians had a show scheduled together. |
05/21 | What we know about claims China 'broke through' Israeli blockade to... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early March 2025 that Israel wou... |
05/21 | Look out for claims comedian Abby McEnany is dead This is only the latest celebrity death hoax. |
05/21 | UN's Statement About 14,000 Children Dying In 48 Hours In Gaza With... Did the UN say that 14,000 babies would die if there is no aid to Gaza in 48 hours... |
09/24 | Sixth PQC Standardization Conference FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS NIST plans to hold the 6th PQC Standardization Conference ... |
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... |
05/22 | Cybersecurity and AI: Integrating and Building on Existing NIST Gui... What is NIST up to? On April 3, 2025, NIST hosted a Cybersecurity and AI Profile W... |
05/21 | Threat Level - GUARDED On May 21, the Cyber Threat Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (Gu... |
05/21 | A 5-Stage Process for Automated Testing and Delivery of Complex Sof... Managing and maintaining deployments of complex software present engineers with a ... |
05/20 | Threat Actors Deploy LummaC2 Malware to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data f... Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infras... |
05/20 | CSF 2.0 Webinar Series: Deep-Dive into the CSF 2.0 Govern Function ... One of the major updates to CSF 2.0 is the creation of the Govern Function, highli... |
05/19 | CISA Welcomes Madhu Gottumukkala as the New Deputy Director |
05/15 | A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome which could allow for arbitra... |
05/15 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile Could Al... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile, t... |
05/15 | How Threat Modeling, Actor Attribution Grow Cyber Defenses Want to enhance your threat modeling? By combining it with threat actor attributio... |
05/15 | Stop Imagining Threats, Start Mitigating Them: A Practical Guide to... When building a software-intensive system, a key part in creating a secure and rob... |
05/14 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe o... |
05/13 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortinet Products Could Allow for Arbit... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Fortinet Products, the most sever... |
05/13 | Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, May 13, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most seve... |
05/13 | Five Years Later: Evolving IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines The Background…and NIST’s Plan for Improving IoT Cybersecurity The passage of the ... |
05/13 | CISA Statement on Cyber-Related Alerts and Notifications |
05/12 | Russian GRU Targeting Western Logistics Entities and Technology Com... Executive Summary This joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) highlights a Russian sta... |
05/12 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Android OS Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Android OS, the most sever... |
05/07 | 5th High-Performance Computing Security Workshop High-performance computing (HPC) systems provide fundamental computing infrastruct... |
05/05 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 10... Multiple v ulnerabilities have been discovered in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (... |
05/05 | CIS Benchmarks May 2025 Update Here is an overview of the CIS Benchmarks that the Center for Internet Security (C... |
05/05 | Small Businesses Create Big Impact: NIST Celebrates 2025 National S... This week we’re celebrating National Small Business Week—which recognizes and cele... |
04/29 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products Could Allow for Arbitr... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products, the most severe... |
04/28 | 10 Things Organizations Should Know About AI Workforce Development This post outlines 10 recommendations developed in response to work with our missi... |
04/25 | A Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Could Allow for Re... A vulnerability has been discovered in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, which could ... |
04/23 | Top 10 Malware Q1 2025 In Q1 2025, the Top 10 Malware observed via the MS-ISAC® changed slightly from the... |
04/23 | CISA, DHS S&T, INL, LSU Help Energy Industry Partners Strengthen In... |
04/23 | Statement from Matt Hartman on the CVE Program |
04/23 | A Vulnerability in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 Series ... A vulnerability has been discovered in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 Ma... |
04/21 | DataOps: Towards More Reliable Machine Learning Systems Decisions based on ML models can have significant consequences, and managing the r... |
04/18 | Oracle Quarterly Critical Patches Issued April 15, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle products, which could allo... |
04/18 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple products, the most severe o... |
04/16 | Hacktivist Group DieNet Claims DDoS Attacks against U.S. CNI DieNet is a hacktivist group that's claimed DDoS attacks against U.S. critical inf... |
04/16 | CISA Statement on CVE Program |
04/14 | NIST Updates Privacy Framework, Tying It to Recent Cybersecurity Gu... Targeted changes to content and structure respond to stakeholder needs and make th... |
04/08 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortinet Products Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered Fortinet Products, the most severe o... |
04/08 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe o... |
04/08 | A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, which could allow for arbitr... |
04/08 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Could Allow for... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ivanti Endpoint Manager, the most... |
04/08 | Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, April 8, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most seve... |
04/08 | CIS Benchmarks April 2025 Update Here is an overview of the CIS Benchmarks that the Center for Internet Security (C... |
04/08 | Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit The Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit is an annual event bringing together ... |
04/07 | FFIEC CAT Sunset: What You Need to Know How are you preparing for the sunset of the FFIEC CAT? Read on to learn how anothe... |
04/07 | Evaluating LLMs for Text Summarization: An Introduction Deploying LLMs without human supervision and evaluation can lead to significant er... |
04/03 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products Could Allow for Arbitr... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products, the most severe... |
04/03 | A Vulnerability in Ivanti Products Could Allow for Remote Code Exec... A Vulnerability has been discovered in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Z... |
04/03 | CISA and Partners Issue Fast Flux Cybersecurity Advisory |
04/03 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX could allow for arbitrary code ... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM AIX, the most severe of which... |