Credit unions continue to shine in the press, with the latest round of positive stories about credit unions.

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has discovered that search terms related to the forthcoming Apple Tablet announcment have already become the latest target for Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks.

In the lead up to Apple’s official announcment which is scheduled to happen today, there has been a great deal of anticipation and speculation over the Internet. As people become interested in finding more information on the product, related search terms are currently gaining momentum, and as they do so Blackhat SEO attacks are starting to climb up the search result listings.

Below is a screenshot from Google Trends showing how one of the targeted phrases by Black SEO “apple tablet announcement” is starting to gain momentum:

Black SEO attacks start climbing up in search ranks, clicking on such result leads to a Rogue Antivirus site:

The file in the rogue AV site has 30% detection rate. If the file is installed it reports non-existent infections and disturbs the user with on going pop-ups. In order to “clean” the system the rogue program is offered for a price:

Websense® Messaging and Websense Web Security customers are protected against this attack.

January 27, 2010, Alexandria, Va. – The National Credit Union Administration today posted the latest results from DATATRAC, Inc., a company that tracks rates charged and paid by credit unions, banks, and credit unions that converted to or merged with banks.

January 26, 2010, Alexandria, Va. – NCUA Board Member, Michael E. Fryzel recently met with NuMark Credit Union CEO Ann Dubie along with members of the credit union’s board and staff at the branch office located in Crest Hill, IL.

January 26, 2010, Alexandria, Va. – The National Credit Union Administration Board has issued orders prohibiting the following individuals from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.

WASHINGTON (FILED 2:50 p.m. EST 1/27/10)–The Federal Reserve’s policymakers, citing strengthening economic activity and a moderate pace of recovery, today announced they will maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate at 0% to 0.25%.

At its first town-hall style meeting of the new year, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) shared some frank thoughts about its plans to revamp the corporate credit union system.

CUNA has called on President Barack Obama to endorse credit union member business lending “as part of the solution to the small business credit crunch” in his upcoming State of the Union address.

Mid-year numbers for 2009 indicate a shifting focus of suspicious activity reports (SARs) with a 19% increase in check-fraud reports and a 36% jump in counterfeit check SARs filed by credit unions and other depository institutions.

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) will join a number of his congressional colleagues, including Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), Ed Royce (R-Calif.), and Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.), as well as House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), at CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference.