FTC Announces Inquiry into Personalized Pricing and Employee Compensation
On October 28, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission announced the agency had launched an inquiry into the use of personal...
Month: November 2026
CalPrivacy to Hold November Board Meeting on Privacy Rights and Regulatory Proposals
On November 5 and 6, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency Board will hold a public meeting addressing consumer privacy...
California Law Extends CMIA Protections to Health Care Chatbots and Enacts New Guardrails on AI Use in Clinical Care
California recently enacted AB 1979, which extends California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to consumer-facing health care chatbots and limits...
Firewalling the AI Era: Why the Network Still Decides
As AI agents act across systems, firewalls reveal what they reach, enforce policy at boundaries, and help contain the risks...
PHP2Shell: How Cisco Helps Customers Respond to AI-Accelerated Threats
The following resources address the coverage available for PHP2Shell today, as well as ways Cisco customers can begin to increase...
Cisco AI Transit connects AI environments to your SD-WAN
AI workloads are spreading across specialized cloud environments. Cisco AI Transit is designed to extend the existing SD-WAN fabric to...
Defenders need more time to patch with the influx of patching hitting operations
Discover how Cisco Live Protect, virtual patching, and Secure Workload help defenders reduce vulnerability exposure while buying time for critical...
Bookshelf: China’s epic campaign to steal America’s secrets
China’s efforts, both legal and illegal, to acquire America’s intellectual property (IP) have long been a central theme in the...
A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure
DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal? Do...
DHS Has Used This Controversial Investigative Tool 185,000 Times Since Trump Took Office
Homeland Security Investigations estimates that it has sent out more administrative subpoenas since January 2025 than it did in more...
Smashing Security podcast #491: How AI agents are spooking the banks
Bank of America has a message for its customers: please, for the love of God, stop handing your banking passwords...
The Fridge-Hacking Spree Is an Internet-of-Things Wake-Up Call
Escalating hacks affecting blood labs and grocery stores show the very real risks to critical infrastructure that come from basic...
Hackers leak personnel data of 41,000+ Homeland Security staff, including ICE and border agents
The US Department of Homeland Security has had the details of more than 41,000 staff, including ICE and CBP agents,...
Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking
An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and...
BYOD cyberattack diverts ambulances and cancels classes at University of New Mexico health center
Ambulances were diverted, surgeries cancelled, and medical students sent home from classes after a ransomware group attacked the University of...