Archive for February, 2011
Credit unions and other financial institutions often can play a key role in uncovering instances of financial exploitation of the elderly, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Tuesday released an advisory on filing Suspicious Activity Reports on this type of elder abuse.
The Malawi parliament last week passed a long-awaited Financial Cooperatives Bill designed to strengthen the position of the country’s savings and credit cooperatives, or credit unions, and bring basic financial services to one of the poorest countries in world.
Three credit union representatives are among the 12 members appointed to the newly formed Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council for the First Federal Reserve District, announced the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
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Viewers report two scams popping up in our area
kjrh.com It's what's known as a phishing scam that prompts you to click on a link. Once you do it asks for account information, if you give it, you're in trouble. The other comes by text message and claims to come from a local Sand Springs Credit Union and says … |
Websense Security Labs™ gets to see a lot of large email spam
campaigns that come through our ThreatSeeker™ Network. However, what's
nice is that not only do we get to analyze and protect against the
larger campaigns, we can also notice smaller campaigns or oddball
variants.
A few days ago, we came across this interesting piece of email.
Although small, it's interesting to see the crossover of malicious style
compromises into the spam world. It also highlights the business model
the spammers are going by… or perhaps it points to something more
dangerous (more on that later).
Websense customers are protected with our Advanced Classification Engine analytics, our suite of technologies within TRITON.
The process starts with an email having a subject line like "The refreshed site of our company". The email messages is thanking the recipient for assisting them (the company) solving a problem they had on their website, and urging the user to open it.
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February, 23, 2011, Alexandria, Va. — The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) today
placed NYC OTB Federal Credit Union, located in New York, New York, into liquidation.
February 22, 2011, Alexandria, Va. – National Credit Union Administration Board Member Michael E.
Fryzel recently visited Whiting Refinery Federal Credit Union in, Whiting, Indiana.
The National Credit Union Administration said it may not need to assess a National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund premium on credit unions in 2011.
The NCUA last week reported that it did not write off any of the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund’s assets as insurance loss expenses in January.
A March 2 subcommittee hearing on the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on smaller financial institutions is among the items on a just-released, tentative House Financial Services Committee hearing schedule for March.