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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... |
| 05/11 | MMR vaccine doesn't contain 'a lot of aborted fetus debris,' contra... The claim stems from a misunderstanding of how the MMR vaccine is produced. |
| 05/11 | No, Karoline Leavitt did not debate Rachel Maddow on the latter's M... One YouTube video spreading the claim noted in its description that "no actual deb... |
| 05/11 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Clearly Show Macron Hiding White Powder ... Does a video clearly show French President Macron hiding a bag of white powder coc... |
| 05/11 | Most of these 10 Time magazine covers aren't real Fabricated Time magazine covers often feature prominent figures, including heads o... |
| 05/11 | Yes, Oklahoma's new academic standards say to teach students 2020 e... Election fraud conspiracies promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump are now offici... |
| 05/11 | Fact Check: Fake Headline About 'Pakistan Air Force' Being 'Undispu... Did UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph publish a story headlined "Pakistan Air Force... |
| 05/10 | HHS hired researcher without medical license under RFK Jr., but rol... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' website said David Geier was hir... |
| 05/10 | Wells Fargo execs got reduced fines for fraud, but no evidence it w... Fines for former banking executives involved in a fraud scandal plummeted from a c... |
| 05/10 | 13 rumors we've investigated about AOC Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat from New York, has been the ... |
| 05/10 | Fact Check: NO Evidence Pope Leo XIV Said "Be Woke" Or That Stateme... Did Pope Leo XIV release a statement in which he said "Be woke"? No, that's not tr... |
| 05/10 | Neither Rosa Parks nor her husband owned a car during the bus boyco... Many commenters pointed out that Parks was a trained activist — but few posts corr... |
| 05/10 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Missiles From Pakistan Impacting De... Does a video authentically show a missile attack by Pakistan on Delhi? No, that's ... |
| 05/09 | USDA withdrew proposed new salmonella regulations in poultry, but t... A USDA spokesperson said its most recent performance standards, set in 2016, regar... |
| 05/09 | Video shows Russian drone striking Ukraine, not Indian drone interc... The footage first appeared on a Russian broadcasting channel on Telegram. |
| 05/09 | Intelligence Memo Undercuts Trump’s Immigration Argument When the Washington Post reported via anonymous sources that a government intellig... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: NO Evidence Pope Leo XIV Was A 'Celebrated' Jazz Tromb... Did Robert Francis Prevost moonlight as "Bobby Prev", a "celebrated jazz trombonis... |
| 05/09 | New Pope, New Conspiracies, But At The Speed Of Social Media ROME - That puff of white from atop the Sistine Chapel has long been a starting gu... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show President Trump Bringing Up Buildin... Does a video show President Trump in the Oval Office calling the collapse Building... |
| 05/09 | US Embassy demanded Stockholm officials comply with Trump's anti-DE... The U.S. Embassy in Sweden's capital requested the city's compliance with Trump's ... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: As of May 9, 2025, Shiloh Hendrix's Fundraising Campaig... Was Shiloh Hendrix's campaign to raise $1,000,000 frozen, as of midday May 9, 2025... |
| 05/09 | No proof Pope Leo XIV played jazz trombone under the name 'Bobby Prev' The newly elected pope said in a 2024 interview that he played tennis in his free ... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Israeli Drone Sent By India Destroy... Does a video of a circular object with sparks and smoke swirling under it as it fa... |
| 05/09 | Yes, Trump called the toy company Mattel a country The U.S. president was speaking at the White House, during a news conference annou... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE Elon Musk Decided To Gift Alysa Liu Tesla Do viral posts prove that the tech billionaire decided to celebrate American ice s... |
| 05/09 | Yes, the Lopez v. Apple lawsuit over Siri allegedly snooping on use... Apple device users with Siri installed must submit a claim by July 2, 2025, in ord... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: Videos Do NOT Show Fires, Explosions in Pakistani Port ... Did widely-shared clips show fires and explosions in the Pakistani city of Karachi... |
| 05/09 | Unpacking claim Time magazine cover shows Mark Carney giving Trump ... The image of the Canadian prime minister supposedly flipping off the U.S. presiden... |
| 05/09 | US Border Patrol didn't uncover FEMA relief packages left by Biden ... The made-up story claimed Biden's administration rerouted the packages away from T... |
| 05/09 | Investigating WWII-era photo of woman posing with skull of 'Japanes... The original caption alleged the photo depicted the woman writing a thank-you note... |
| 05/09 | Fact Check: Fake Headline About Pope Leo XIV And 2020 Anarchist 'CH... Did the New York Times publish a story headlined "Pope Leo XIV Was a Founding Memb... |
| 05/08 | Pope Francis donated a popemobile to children of Palestine in a fin... It's unclear when the vehicle would be on the ground in Gaza, as Israel blocked hu... |
| 05/08 | Fact Check: Posts About Suspects 'Kelvin Buckland' And 'Malena Rena... Do posts about suspects "Kelvin Buckland" and "Malena Renae Mason" being on the ru... |
| 05/08 | Fact Check: New Pope Leo XIV Is NOT 'Registered Republican' -- He V... Does a viral image prove that the newly elected U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV is a "regis... |
| 05/08 | The Possible Source of Trump’s False $2 Gasoline Claim The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is still over $3, and n... |
| 05/08 | Purported video of wounded 'Pakistani official' is unrelated to Ind... The video originated in April 2025 and documented an incident involving a Pakistan... |
| 05/08 | Video shows Trump complaining about Met Gala invite 'ban'? The video purportedly showed the president complaining about Kamala Harris' attend... |
| 05/08 | Was Record of Heroic Nurse Wiped from Defense Department Archives? Q. Did President Donald Trump call military nurse Ruby Bradley a “loser,R... |
| 05/08 | Video showing Anna Wintour saying why she banned Trump from Met Gal... In the fabricated video, Wintour said she didn't want Trump supporters shouting "M... |
| 05/08 | White Smoke: Cardinals Choose American Robert Prevost As Pope Leo X... Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, was chosen as successor to Pope Francis... |
| 05/08 | Fact Check: NO Evidence Toyota, Nissan And Honda 'Will No Longer Se... Does a video on YouTube confirm that three Japanese car manufacturers publicly ann... |
| 05/08 | Here's what we know about rumors Met Gala co-chair Anna Wintour ban... Anna Wintour said in October 2017 that she would "never" invite Donald Trump back ... |
| 05/08 | Country Music Association didn't accuse Jay-Z of unethical promotio... A manager of the popular Reagan Was Right Facebook page, which describes its outpu... |
| 05/08 | Trump did say, 'Let them fight,' but not in reference to 2025 tensi... A resurfaced 2019 clip showed Trump arguing against India and the U.S. intervening... |
| 05/08 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Indian Drone Shot Down By Pakistan ... Did a video show an Indian drone falling to the ground and causing an explosion, a... |
| 05/08 | Fact Check: John Fetterman Was NOT 'Officially Kicked Out' of the D... Was U.S. Sen. John Fetterman expelled from the Democratic party in early May 2025?... |
| 05/08 | What to know about claims that Amazon Prime Video censored 2010 'Ro... Claims that the Prime Video version of "Robin Hood" removed the opening text date ... |
| 05/08 | Fact Check: Fake Story About Cuban, Gates And Buffett Receiving $25... Did "DOGE Auditor Joe Barron" uncover that billionaires Mark Cuban, Bill Gates and... |
| 05/08 | Yes, US deported more than 3M people during Obama presidency — most... According to social media posts, 75-83% of people deported under Obama were remove... |
| 05/08 | 9 education rumors we've investigated since the start of Trump's se... ... |
| 05/07 | Don't fall for AI videos about Musk's young son praising Jesus on l... Videos about the claim included disclaimers that the story was fictional and the v... |
| 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... |
| 05/20 | 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... |
| 05/12 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Android OS Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Android OS, the most sever... |
| 05/07 | Threat Level - GUARDED On May 7, the Cyber Threat Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (Gua... |
| 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... |
| 04/01 | Fast Flux: A National Security Threat Executive summary Many networks have a gap in their defenses for detecting and blo... |
| 04/01 | April is Emergency Communications Month! |
| 04/01 | Building Resilient ICT Supply Chains: 8th Annual Supply Chain Inte... |
| 03/31 | SAFECOM Publishes Fall 2024 SAFECOM Bi-Annual Meeting Executive Sum... |
| 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 | The Essential Role of AISIRT 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 ... |
