Can Apps Keep Your Smartphone Safe?
Smartphone applications have changed the digital landscape in numerous ways. Apps have redefined the way entertainment is consumed, how businesses engage with customers, how students receive...
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Mortgage Borrowers Can Challenge Inaccurate Appraisals Through The Reconsideration of Value Process
The CFPB discussed this subject in an article on October 9, 2022, on the CFPB website.
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Stolen Data from 5.4 Million Twitter Users – Leaked Online (Even More Shared Privately)
The stolen data consists of scraped public information (such as Twitter IDs, names, login names, locations, and verified status) as well as private phone numbers and email addresses that are not...
Checklist for Better Digital Offboarding of Employees
Digital footprints cover today's modern workplace. Employees begin making these the moment they're hired. They get a company email address and application logins. They may even update their LinkedIn...
How Can You Tell If Apps Are Safe? ThreatAdvice Course Overview
Smartphone applications provide practical assistance in multiple areas of life. Users download apps according to their lifestyle, business habits, and interests. Smartphones are full of personal data...
Hundreds of Amazon RDS Instances Leak Users' Personal Data
Researchers recently discovered hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) which are exposing personally identifiable information (PII). Amazon RDS is the web...
Online Holiday Shopping? Follow These 9 Urgent Tips
The holiday shopping season is taking off. This means that scammers have also revved up their engines. They're primed and ready to take advantage of all those online transactions.
How to Stay Safe Online? ThreatAdvice Course Overview
Recent research revealed that users spend more than 23 hours online every week. Many users don’t even stop to consider if their methods of surfing the internet are safe. Malware, malicious websites,...
Step-By-Step Guide for Better Endpoint Protection
Endpoints make up much of a company’s network and IT infrastructure. This is a collection of computers, mobile devices, servers, and smart gadgets. As well as other IoT devices that all connect to...
Fair Lending Program Areas for Considerations
Fair Lending continues to be at the top of the list for all regulatory examinations. As a result, a financial institution’s fair lending program should consider the following areas to avoid potential...
Verizon Notifies Prepaid Customers Their Accounts Were Breached
Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. "We determined that between...
Ursnif Malware Switches From Bank Account Theft to Initial Access
A new version of the Ursnif malware (a.k.a. Gozi) emerged as a generic backdoor, stripped of its specific banking trojan functionality. This change could indicate that the operators of the new...