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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... |
Fake News & Hoaxes
| 04/08 | Musk didn't become guardian of abandoned newborn baby Thousands of Facebook users reposted a story featuring a supposed photo of Musk pr... |
| 04/08 | Fact Check: FAKE Photo Does Not Authentically Show Diana Fox Carney... Did a photograph shared in April 2025 authentically show Diana Fox Carney standing... |
| 04/08 | RFK Jr. said he flew on Jeffrey Epstein's jet twice. Here's context He said he flew on Epstein’s jet once in 1993 and again one or two years later "be... |
| 04/08 | Documents don't show CIA confirmed Hitler left Germany for South Am... The Nazi leader died by suicide in 1945. |
| 04/08 | Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Sell $2.3 Billion Of His Truth ... Did President Donald Trump sell $2.3 billion of his Truth Social stock a day befor... |
| 04/07 | Trump's June 2020 protest remarks misrepresented as comment on 2025... Over 1,200 locations in all 50 U.S. states featured "Hands Off!" rallies on April ... |
| 04/07 | National Park Service removed — then restored — details about Harri... The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emph... |
| 04/07 | Fact Check: NO EVIDENCE Trump Was Prepared To Pause Tariffs On All ... Was there credible information behind a tweeted report that President Donald Trump... |
| 04/07 | Don't believe fake Trump post about George Soros paying protesters According to the screenshot, people who protested Trump in cities nationwide April... |
| 04/07 | Trump Misleads on Transgender Issues We fact-check various aspects of two of President Donald Trump's executive orders ... |
| 04/07 | Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Post 'No Crying in the Casino' Ami... Did U.S. President Donald Trump write "No crying in the casino" in a Truth Social ... |
| 04/07 | Fact Check: 17 'Major Cities' In US Did NOT Issue Evacuation Orders... Are there credible reports about evacuation from 17 U.S. cities due to an imminent... |
| 04/07 | Fact Check: FAKE Austin Metcalf Instagram Post Shows Photo of Guns ... Did Austin Metcalf, a Texas teenager stabbed to death in April 2025, earlier post ... |
| 04/07 | 10 rumors involving Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt Leavitt has been both the target and source of questionable rumors since she took ... |
| 04/07 | Photo of women allegedly supporting Prohibition is not what it seems An image depicting teetotaler women protesting the consumption of alcohol actually... |
| 04/07 | TikTok user posted manipulated Tesla logo that resembled KKK hood Users shared the image as Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in the news for his work with Pr... |
| 04/06 | Are cellphones really dirtier than toilet seats? Here's what we found Mobile phones can act as a “trojan horse” for pathogenic microorganisms, according... |
| 04/06 | Yes, these WWI-era facial prosthetics are real — but the sculptor c... While the work is often attributed solely to sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd, she led a... |
| 04/06 | A collection of rumors about UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting defendan... U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in April 2025 that prosecutors would seek the... |
| 04/06 | 'Anti-cheating bra' is real invention — but you can't really buy it Social media users claimed the bra only unlocks with a "boyfriend’s fingerprint." |
| 04/06 | Fact Check: Satire Story About FBI Agents Involved In Mar-a-Lago Ra... Is there a real news story saying every FBI agent involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid ... |
| 04/05 | 18th-century English gambling dens employed people to swallow dice ... One newspaper reported that people who were given the responsibility "must have ha... |
| 04/05 | Striking image and video of 'Steeple Mountain' on Jupiter's moon Io... According to NASA, the massive mountain on the Jovian moon stands between 3 and 4.... |
| 04/05 | Trump tariffs: 10 rumors with varying degrees of truth From rumors about automakers opening new factories to layoffs in the alcohol indus... |
| 04/05 | Fact Check: Facebook Posts Offering Free Food For Needy Americans I... Does a series of Facebook posts offering needy Americans "free food and stuff" pro... |
| 04/05 | Fact Check: Copied Satire Story Said Rep. Jasmine Crockett Also Kep... Did Representative Jasmine Crockett "conveniently overlook" social security checks... |
| 04/05 | Trump didn't install a 200-foot statue of Jesus outside the White H... Errors in the footage make it clear the video is AI-generated. |
| 04/05 | Fact Check: Satire Story About Kash Patel Seizing Bank And Phone Re... Are there news reports about FBI Director Kash Patel seizing phone and bank record... |
| 04/04 | Investigating rumor that Musk is shutting down Meals on Wheels prog... The food delivery organization says it serves 251 million meals annually to 2 mill... |
| 04/04 | Rep. Keith Self quoted Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels at congres... Self later posted on X calling a video's framing of his remarks "completely mislea... |
| 04/04 | No, Rep. Jasmine Crockett didn't collect dead grandmother's Social ... A network of Facebook pages and websites describing its output as satirical in nat... |
| 04/04 | Fox News didn't show live stocks ticker after Trump's tariffs annou... Also, the right-leaning cable news channel has never had a continuous live stocks ... |
| 04/04 | Vance was wrong: Maryland father accidentally deported to El Salvad... A confidential police source claimed he was an MS-13 gang member — but other cited... |
| 04/04 | Historian Heather Cox Richardson said Facebook removed her posts. H... Posts on Richardson's page were visible again days after she and many of her follo... |
| 04/04 | Video of Danish parliament laughing at Trump's Greenland comments i... A 2019 video of the Danish parliament was doctored to add audio of Trump talking a... |
| 04/04 | Fact Check: Posts About Police Searching For 'Jamie Hodges' And 'Ka... Did viral posts spread an authentic warning about two suspects at large in connect... |
| 04/04 | Yes, the IRS allows tax deductions on some pet expenses, like servi... Claims shared online about "exciting news for pet owners" regarding potential tax ... |
| 04/04 | Fact Check: Posts About a 'Heavily Stabbed' Woman Found In An Audi ... Did a series of Facebook posts in late March and early April 2025 offer genuine co... |
| 04/04 | At least 4 school shooters sentenced to death since 1940, but none ... The claim that "zero" school shooters have ever been sentenced to death is false. |
| 04/04 | No proof Musk's $5.7B charity donation in 2021 broke any records A February 2022 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing revealed Musk donat... |
| 04/04 | Unravelling claims Biden abandoned NASA astronauts in space for pol... Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams had to stay at the International ... |
| 04/04 | Fact Check: SABC News Did NOT Report Zelenskyy Bought Northam Plati... Did the South African Broadcasting Corporation air a news segment saying Ukrainian... |
| 04/03 | Rumor claims Musk donated $800K to help storm victims repair their ... Facebook users shared the claim in spring 2025 following severe weather. |
| 04/03 | Posts online correctly cracked the formula for Trump's tariffs Despite a White House spokesman claiming otherwise, the published formula matched ... |
| 04/03 | Trump’s Misleading Tariff Chart In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new "reciprocal tariffs," President Do... |
| 04/03 | Trump tweet from 2012 demanding impeachment if Dow drops 1,000 poin... The purported screenshot circulated in early April 2025, following the imposition ... |
| 04/03 | What to know about rumors Musk is leaving his DOGE role In an X post, Musk called rumors he was being sidelined by the administration "fak... |
| 04/03 | Legal Scholars Dispute Constitutional ‘Loophole’ for a Third Trump ... President Donald Trump said in a March 30 interview that "there are methods" for h... |
| 04/03 | No evidence Musk sobbed to Trump about Tesla 'going down' in leaked... In the clip, Trump allegedly responded to Musk’s claim that “Tesla is going down” ... |
| 04/03 | Yes, Trump placed tariffs on uninhabited group of islands occupied ... UNESCO World Heritage says the Heard Island and McDonald Islands exist "in the com... |
Cybersecurity News
| 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... |
| 05/07 | 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 04/02 | Threat Level - GUARDED On April 2, the Cyber Threat Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (G... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
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