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Ransomware risk: 2 preventive steps for your small business

Lesley Fair
If recent headlines about ransomware attacks on companies have you worried, your concerns are well-founded. Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure
Technology Blog

Ethics FAQs for FTC technologists

Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission is aggressively hiring Technologists to help drive the agency’s work, ensure a vibrant technology marketplace, conduct investigations, and hold companies and people who
Data Spotlight

Amazon tops list of impersonated businesses

Emma Fletcher
Scammers impersonate all sorts of businesses, but reports to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel point to Amazon as a runaway favorite for scammers. From July 2020 through June 2021, about one in three people
Business Blog

Protecting your business in the wake of a natural disaster

Lesley Fair
If your company is facing the fall-out from Hurricane Ida, flooding in Tennessee, western wildfires, or any other natural disaster, your employees are looking for help in the recovery process – and
Competition Matters

Adjusting merger review to deal with the surge in merger filings

Holly Vedova, Bureau of Competition
Given the recent surge in merger filings, the FTC is reviewing its processes to determine how best to use its limited resources. The FTC reviews mergers per the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act, which
Business Blog

Back to business #4: Back-to-work basics for job seekers

Lesley Fair
We’ll leave it to the economists to crunch the employment numbers. We’re just happy to see more Help Wanted signs in the windows of Main Street retailers. That’s good news for Americans affected by
Business Blog

Back to business #3: Looking for small business financing?

Lesley Fair
It’s exciting to see so many “open” signs appearing in store windows across the country. But some companies making the transition to an in-person workplace may find themselves in a short-term cash
Business Blog

Back to business #1: Where’s your data?

Lesley Fair
As many companies shift to an in-person workplace, you and your employees face the opportunities and challenges of the new new normal. Today is the first in a five-part Back to Business blog series to
Data Spotlight

Cryptocurrency buzz drives record investment scam losses

Emma Fletcher
Investing in cryptocurrency means taking on risks, but getting scammed shouldn’t be one of them. Reports to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel 1 suggest scammers are cashing in on the buzz around