How to detect fraudulent college application consultants and avoid scams

College consultants promise shortcuts to elite admissions. Here's how to identify the ones who are stealing money instead.
Data breaches at technology companies

College consultants promise shortcuts to elite admissions. Here's how to identify the ones who are stealing money instead.

Survey platform breaches expose names, payment methods, behavioral profiles, and authentication credentials in one unified dataset.

Email marketing platform breaches expose millions of customer lists, authentication credentials, and campaign data in a single attack, compromising thousands of downstream businesses simultaneously.

If your mailing list is compromised, you have 24-72 hours to stop the breach, notify regulators, and contact affected subscribers or face fines up to $1 million.

Email spoofing doesn't always mean your account was hacked—but your response depends on which one occurred.

When email providers are breached, millions of credentials become tools for identity theft, phishing, and account takeovers lasting months.

A compromised SSL certificate requires immediate revocation and replacement. Here's how to respond and recover.

million secrets leaked on GitHub in 2025 alone—here's how to detect if your application credentials are among them.

Developers now publish 133 new vulnerabilities per day, yet exploits arrive within days. Security must be built in from code's first line.

When GitHub is breached, attackers steal code, credentials, and supply chain access—with costs extending far beyond the repository.