Committed to offering the very best in banking convenience, NASA Federal Credit Union today announced they are providing to their members free online access to their FICO® Scores, the top factors impacting their scores, and comprehensive credit education. The scores, which will be updated monthly, will be available to members through smarter, easier, faster eBranch, the credit union's recently upgraded online banking service.

"We are very pleased to begin offering this benefit to our membership," said Douglas Allman, President and CEO. "By educating members and increasing their awareness of their FICO® Scores, the Credit Union will be providing a valuable program to help members better understand their financial health and ultimately achieve a brighter financial future."

FICO® Scores are used by more than 90 percent of U.S. lenders to quickly assess your credit risk, and can influence terms and rates consumers pay on car loans, mortgages, credit cards and other forms of credit.

About NASA Federal Credit Union: NASA Federal Credit Union is an innovative, national, not-for profit cooperative providing financial services for individuals, businesses and associations. Chartered in 1949, NASA Federal Credit Union serves the diverse needs of more than 125,000 members with a full array of financial services and the strength of over $1.8 billion in assets. Our core purpose is to empower people to achieve a brighter financial future by acting as their advocate and trusted advisor.

About FICO: FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 165 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.

India has moved up the rankings for countries with the most number of financial Trojan infections, as per the latest research from Symantec. This is a consistent rise as in 2014 it was ranked fifth and in 2013 the country ranked seventh among those with the most number of financial Trojan infections, only to be preceded by USA and Germany.


Globally, however, the total number of financial Trojan detections continued to decrease in 2015, with a 73 percent drop compared to the previous year. Despite that the  financial Trojans are becoming far more capable and criminals are increasingly targeting institutions directly, said Symantec researchers.


The report  infers that financial gain is still one of the major motivations behind most cyber criminal activities. According to researchers, every type of financial institutions are targeted, from small local branches to big global players. Globally, 547 institutions in 49 countries were targeted by the 656 analyzed financial Trojans. The financial sector was the highest targeted sector in January 2016 with 40.2 percent of all spear-phishing attacks. In India, over 60, 000 computers in India were compromised with financial Trojans in 2015, the study showed.


The primary distribution vector for financial fraud malware is through malicious spam email attachments, said Symantec. The trend of using office documents containing malicious macros as dropper continued in 2015. Dridex, which has emerged as one of the most dangerous financial threats over the past year, targeted a total of 315 different institutions, Shifu only 16.