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Cybersecurity, privacy, and the fight to stay safe online.
After the CFPB dismissed its federal Zelle suit with prejudice, New York’s fraud case against operator Early Warning Services is moving into discovery—leaving scam victims to fight banks under voluntary reimbursement policies.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the FTC is using the calendar to repeat a simple rule: anyone demanding cash, gold, or wire transfers in the agency’s name is a scammer.
A Federal Register notice published October 1 asks whether search and social platforms should face new duties when ad tools amplify fake government and bank pages that drain consumer accounts.
The FTC says real staff never text badge photos to prove they can recover scam losses, as the agency opens comment on how ad platforms amplify impersonation fraud.
The FTC says scammers tuck QR codes inside surprise deliveries so curious recipients hand over card numbers and passwords; treat unordered packages as a fraud signal, not a puzzle to scan.
State and federal agents say they disrupted a planned assault on the Texas Capitol for October 1, arresting a Converse man after an overnight SWAT operation and later taking him into federal custody.
