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Another instance of an allegedly wrongful seizure of a home has surfaced in Florida.

Even if Congress and the Obama administration allow federal loan limits to fall back to pre-crisis levels in October, as expected, the limits will still be higher than they need to be, professors at The George Washington University School of Business have determined.

In finalizing its rule on the licensing and registration of loan officers, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reversed course and is now suggesting that employees working on loan modifications for mortgage servicers should be licensed by the states, says Kris D. Kully, a lawyer at K&L Gates LLP.

A three-judge appellate panel has reinstituted foreclosure proceedings against a Miami couple who created a fake promissory note and convinced a trial judge to discharge their entire mortgage debt.

Inquiring minds have been dying to know: who was Elizabeth Warren rushing to meet when she left a House Oversight subcommittee hearing after a dispute with the chairman?

Another week, another theft of an entire automated teller machine.

The email addresses and unencrypted passwords of all 300,000 of a Groupon subsidiary's users have been exposed, StorefrontBacktalk reported June 30.

A growing number of lawsuits over data breaches could place more liability on the companies behind the software that was exploited in the attacks — and thus force an increase in security, Ars Technica reported Friday.

Twenty-seven usernames and encrypted passwords, supposedly for an Apple Inc. website, were posted online over the weekend with a warning from the hacker group Anonymous, according to an article Computerworld ran Monday.

Many financial institutions and other companies have started to rely on Twitter as a trusted channel for communication, so it was odd to see an official Fox News account fall victim for about 10 hours before the company regained control.