Archive for December, 2010
Identity thieves are having a field day with scams, particularly lucrative ones aimed at home equity lines of credit. Others have stepped up their card scams, and phishing and vishing efforts to take advantage of consumers’ good will and inattention to details during a busy holiday season.
Credit unions, which traditionally have maintained a stronghold on workplace financial services because of their close field-of-membership ties with employers, may see more competition from banks vying for that workplace banking slot.
The “NCUA-safe” ad campaign featuring personal finance expert Suze Orman touting the virtue of federal credit union insurance has tallied more than $2.6 million in free advertising for the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).
With the restructuring of the auto industry, Michigan has felt the effects of the recession as directly as any state in the country. But Michigan residents have turned to credit unions in their time of need, says the Detroit News (Dec. 25).
Kansas’ largest credit union is consolidating branches as it joins the CU Service Centers CO-OP Shared Branching Network, effective in spring 2011.
When viewed as a composite, the contract rate on fixed- and adjustable-rate mortgages (ARM) went down slightly in November from the previous month–to 4.35% from 4.44%, a decline of nine basis points.
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Bbb Lists Top Scams And Rip-Offs Of 2010
St. Louis Globe-Democrat Whatever the setup, the goal of any phishing e-mail is the same: to trick victims into divulging sensitive financial information or to infect the victim's … |
As part of my research within Websense Security Labs, I collaborate with
a group of researchers tasked with profiling exploit kits. This helps
us refine the analytics used in ACE, our Advanced Classification Engine.
In this post I want to cover the installation of Phoenix Exploit's
Kit. I'm not going to tell you how to install and use it, but I will
cover some of the more interesting aspects of installation.
Specifically, I want to cover how the developers protect their code from
being reverse engineered and how the developers have attempted to keep
researchers from poking around in installed kits.
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